Selected tales from the Book of Songs

It is said that Al-Isfahani spent fifty years writing this book, and therefore it is not surprising that Ibn Khaldun said about him: "Al-Qadi Abu Al-Faraj Al-Asbahani, who is he, wrote his book on songs, in which he collected news of the Arabs, their poetry, their genealogies, their days, and their countries. He made its basis on singing in The hundred voices that the singers chose for Al-Rashid, ...