Ibn Batata : Ibn Battutah (1304-1368/69), medieval Arab traveller, author of one of the famous travel books in history, the Rihlah.
... Page 122 IBRAHIM I take refuge with Allah. Wine! for sixteen years I have not touched the evil thing. When I was young indeed! ah well, when I was young. But 'tis forbidden. What saith Ibn Batata? That wine worketh transmogrification. And Ibrahim Alhashhash bin Fuzfuz bin Bierbiloon al Sandilani of Bassora, he rateth wine sorely and averreth that the red glint of it is the shine of the red... neither kiss, for thy mouth smelleth evilly of that accursed thing, wine. I am woeful for the mystic Alhashhash. Page 128 ANICE Art thou transmogrified, O Sufi, O adept, O disciple of Ibn Batata? IBRAHIM Laugh, laugh! laughter is on your beauty like the sunlight on the fair minarets of Mazinderan the beautiful. Give me a cup. ( drinks ) You are sinners and I will sin with you. I will ...
... perfection. Ibrahim: I take refuge with Allah. Wine! For sixteen years I have not touched the evil thing. When I was young indeed! Ah well, when I was young. But 'tis forbidden. What saith Ibn Batata? That wine worketh transmogrification. And Ibrahim Alhash-hash bin Fuzfuz bin Bierbiloon al Sandilani of Bassora, he rateth wine sorely and averreth that the red glint of it is the shine of the red... down from Heaven to ensnare my soul. Let it be ensnared! Tis not worth one beam from under your eyelids. [...] Anice-Aljalice: An thou transmogrified, O Sufi, O adept, O disciple of Ibn Batata? Ibrahim: Laugh, laugh! laughter is on your beauty like the sunlight on the fair minarets of Nazinderan the beautiful. Give me a cup. (drinks) You are sinners and I will sin with you ...
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