person
Ibrahim ibn Adham
Adham
also: ادهم, Ibrahim Adham
Ibrahim ibn Adham (d. c. 777), the prince of Balkh who renounced his throne for asceticism — the legend of the kingly renunciant; his pious lament is outdone by a wine-sick sigh in §105.
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §105 Adham
Ibrahim ibn Adham (d. c. 777), the prince of Balkh who renounced his throne for asceticism — the model renunciant, outdone here by the tavern's dawn sigh.