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In his Kitāb al-Ši'r wa-l-šu'arā', Ibn Qutayba devotes to Imru' al-Qays a notice in two parts, each of which tells a partly different version of the pre-islamic poet's "biography". This article analyses and compares these two parts in order to reveal that they form a structure and to show that this structure became the basis of the poet's legend over the centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]