BUSIRI (Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Sa'id ul-Busiri) (1211-1294), Arabian poet, lived in Egypt, where he wrote un der the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the vizier. His poems seem to have been wholly on religious subjects. The most famous of these is the so-called "Poem of the Mantle." It is entirely in praise of Mohammed, who cured the poet of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle. Even in the poet's life time it was regarded as sacred. Its verses are used as amulets ; it is employed in the lamentations for the dead; it has been fre quently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original. It has been published with English trans lation by Faizullabhai (Bombay, 1893) , with French translation by R. Basset (1894), with German translation by C. A. Ralfs (186o), and in other languages elsewhere.
For commentaries, etc. cf. C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab. Literatur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 264-267.