{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  The ninth-century weaver-poet, Abu Tamman wrote: \u0026lsquo;No, not for Paradise did you forsake the nomad life:\/Rather, I believe, it was your yearning for bread and dates.\u0026rsquo; Similarly, Ahmad al-Baladhuri,  an Arab historian from the same century, cites Rustum, the defeated Persian General, as saying to an Arab envoy: \u0026lsquo;I have learned that you were forced to do what you are doing by poverty and the  need for a livelihood.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}