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  2. Arabic prosody - Wikipedia

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    The feet of an Arabic poem are traditionally represented by mnemonic words called tafāʿīl (تفاعيل).In most poems there are eight of these: four in the first half of the verse and four in the second; in other cases, there will be six of them, meaning three in the first half of the verse and three in the second.

  3. al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi - Wikipedia

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    In addition to his work in prosody and lexicography, al-Farahidi established the fields of ʻarūḍ – rules-governing Arabic poetry metre – and Arabic musicology. [38] [39] Often called a genius by historians, he was a scholar, a theorist and an original thinker. [11] Ibn al-Nadim's list of al-Khalil's other works were:

  4. Arabic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Al-Khalīl ibn ʿAḥmad al-Farāhīdī (711–786 CE) was the first Arab scholar to subject the prosody of Arabic poetry to a detailed phonological study. He failed to produce a coherent, integrated theory which satisfies the requirements of generality, adequacy, and simplicity; instead, he merely listed and categorized the primary data, thus ...

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 24

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    The way I understand statements made in videos made by people of Arabic origin apparently familiar with traditional Arabic prosody is simply in contradiction with statements made in your article Tajwid such as that "[p]rolongation refers to the number of morae (beats of time) that are pronounced when a voweled letter (fatḥah, ḍammah, kasrah ...

  6. Arabic literature - Wikipedia

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    Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.

  7. Kitab al-Aghani - Wikipedia

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    Abū al-Farāj claimed to have taken 50 years in writing the work, which ran to over 10,000 pages and contains more than 16,000 verses of Arabic poetry.It can be seen as having three distinct sections: the first deals with the '100 Best Songs' chosen for the caliph Harūn al-Rashīd, the second with royal composers, and the third with songs chosen by the author himself. [3]

  8. Talk:Arabic prosody - Wikipedia

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    The page is literally same with Arabic prosody, it's just the Turkic version of it. Ahmetlii 21:43, 26 December 2020 (UTC) The article begins "Aruz wezni, or aruz prosody, is a kind of Turkic poetic rhythm", which is of course not true. The term refers to Persian meters used in Turkish.

  9. Foundations of Modern Arab Identity - Wikipedia

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    Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2004) is a book-length study of the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, by Arab American scholar Stephen Sheehi, which critically engages the "intellectual struggles that ensued when Arab writers internalized Western ways of defining themselves and their societies in the mid-1800s.