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Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is the opening poem in the collection of Hafez's 530 poems. In this poem, Hafez calls for wine to soothe his difficulties in love. In a series of varied images he describes his feelings. He is advised to follow the advice of the Elder, and to achieve ...
Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ-o-majnun) [1] is an old story of Arab origin, [2][3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). [4]
Layla bint Abullah ibn Shaddad ibn Ka’b al-Akhyaliyyah (Arabic: ليلى بنت عبدالله بن شداد بن كعب الأخيليّة) (d. c. AH 75/694×90/709 CE), [1] or simply Layla al-Akhyaliyyah (Arabic: ليلى الأخيليّة) was a famous Umayyad Arab poet who was renowned for her poetry, eloquence, strong personality, and beauty.
Nuniyya of Ibn Zaydun. The "Nuniyya of Ibn Zaydun" (Arabic: نونية ابن زيدون; incipit: أَضْحَى التَنائي بَديلاً مِن تَدانينا) is a 52–verse nūniyya, or poem in nūn, by the 11th century Andalusi poet Ibn Zaydun (d. 1071). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It has been described by Michael Sells as the ...
Majnoun reciting poetry in the desert. This type of love is known in Arabic culture as “Virgin Love” (Arabic: حب عذري), because the lovers never married or made love. Other famous Virgin Love stories are the stories of Qays and Lubna, Kuthair and Azza, Layla and Majnun and Antarah ibn Shaddad. His observations on the flight of his ...
Syrian. Website. nizarq.com. Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني, ALA-LC: Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī, French: Nizar Kabbani; 21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet, writer and publisher. He is considered to be Syria's National Poet. [1]
His qaṣīda, or long poem, "Let us stop and weep" (قفا نبك qifā nabki) is one of the seven Mu'allaqat, poems prized as the best examples of pre-Islamic Arabian verse. Imru' al-Qais was born in the Al-Qassim Region of northern Arabia sometime in the early 6th century. His father was said to be Hujr bin al-Harith (حجر ابن ...
Print. Broken Wings (Arabic: الأجنحة المتكسرة, romanized: al-ajniḥa al-mutakassira) is a poetic novel or novella written in Arabic by Kahlil Gibran and first published in 1912 by the printing house of the periodical Meraat-ul-Gharb in New York. It is a tale of tragic love, set at the turn of the 20th century in Beirut.