That was all; no more physical recriminations took place, nobody was raped or killed. We would not have known about the affair if this Hammam, Jicthin's brother, had not been a famous poet better known as al-Farazdaq, one of the great poets of the Umayyad period, and if he had not been involved in a protracted poetic battle, a 'flyting' or scolding match exchanging verbal abuse, with another
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