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Salaman and Absal
Salaman and Absal is an allegorical poem in Persian by Jami, one of the seven narrative poems of his Haft Awrang, dedicated to the Aq Qoyunlu sultan Ya'qub. It tells of a prince, Salaman, born without a mother, and his love for his nurse Absal, a story read as an allegory of the soul's attachment to the body and its turn towards wisdom. Edward FitzGerald translated it into English in 1856.
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