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Luqmān
Lokmân (lok-män’). An Arabian sage anterior to Mohammed. In legendary story he figures now as King of Yemen, then as a prophet, again as an Abyssinian slave. Under his name we have, besides certain sayings contained in the Koran or current in the common speech, a small collection of ‘Fables,’ which in no wise merit the praises bestowed upon them. They are an awkward adaptation of Æsop’s fables, and are not of earlier date than the sixteenth or the fifteenth century.