IBN FARID `Umar ibn ul-Farid) (1181-1235) Arabian poet, was born in Cairo, lived for some time in Mecca and died in Cairo. His poetry is entirely Sufic, and he was es teemed the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs. His diwan was published with commentary at Beirut, 1887, etc. ; with the com mentaries of Burini (d. 1615) and `Abdul-Ghani (d. 173o) at Marseilles, 1853, and at Cairo; and with the commentary of Rushayyid Ghalib (19th century) at Cairo, 1893. One of the separate poems was edited by J. von Hammer Purgstall as Das arabische hohe Lied der Liebe (Vienna, 1854) See R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs (i9o7).