Or mukhannithiin. The lexicographers generally consider the forms mukhannath and mukhannirh simple variants, and I shall use the former throughout this article; on attempts to distinguish between the two semantically, see below, p. 675. Owen Wright, "Music and Verse," in The Cambridge History of Arabic Lirerarure, I: Arabic Lirerarure ro rhe End of the Umayyad Period, ed. A. F. L. Beeston et al.
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