[^1]: Sham or Shamat: until five centuries ago, included...

[^1]: Sham or Shamat: until five centuries ago, included Syria of today, Lebanon and parts of Jordan and Palestine. {Trans.} [^2]: Surah at-Tur 52:30: “Do they say, ‘{He is} a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’?” [^3]: Excerpted from Prof. Ja‘far Subhani’s Furugh-e Abadiyyat. Previous…