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Within each region, the poems are ordered by city, and then by the poet's occupation, from the highest social rank to the lowest. [8] Authors include bureaucrats, gentlemen, kings, ministers, and scholars; the book is evidence of how important love poetry was to the educated of al-Andalus. In all, the anthology contains 314 poetic fragments by ...
The Ring of the Dove or Ṭawq al-Ḥamāmah (Arabic: طوق الحمامة) [1] is a treatise on love written in the year 1022 by Ibn Hazm. [1] Normally a writer of theology and law, Ibn Hazm produced his only work of literature with The Ring of the Dove. [2]
A Promenade of the Hearts (Arabic: نزهة الألباب, romanized: nuz'ha al-ʾalbāb) is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and poems from the Arab Middle Ages, including some poems on homosexual and lesbian themes. [1] Ahmad al-Tifashi, the compiler (1184–1253), was born in Tiffech (now in Algeria), and studied in Tunisia, Egypt and ...
The final element of courtly love, the concept of "love as desire never to be fulfilled," was also at times implicit in Arabic poetry. [ 22 ] The 10th century Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity features a fictional anecdote of a "prince who strays from his palace during his wedding feast and, drunk, spends the night in a cemetery, confusing ...
Raymond K. Farrin identifies a ring composition in the poem and divides the poem into five discrete sections: A – B – C – B¹ – A¹. [2] According to Farrin: Section A introduces the idea of the poet's separation from his beloved, Wallāda, and culminates in a mood of hopelessness and resignation. Morning is associated with this somber ...
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.
Signs of cooling inflation paved the way for September’s first rate cut in four years, with economic data indicating a continued decline from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to rates that have ...
The Library of Arabic Literature's award-winning edition-translations include Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies, which was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2016 National Translation Award [4] and longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award, organized by Open Letter; [5] Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal by ...