Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st century BCE, with oral ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn ( Arabic: رايات المبرزين وغايات المميزين, Banners of the Champions and the Standards of the Distinguished, also translated as Pennants of the Champions) is a thirteenth-century anthology of Andalusī poetry by Ibn Said al-Maghribi. [ 1] It is, in the words of Louis ...
t. e. 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.
The work of medieval Arabic-language women poets has not been preserved as extensively as that of men, but a substantial corpus nonetheless survives; the earliest extensive anthology is the late ninth-century CE Balāghāt al-nisāʾ by Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (d. 280/893). [6] Abd al-Amīr Muhannā named over four hundred female poets in ...
Pre-Islamic poet-knight Antarah ibn Shaddad is the hero of a popular medieval Arabic romance. Arabic epic literature encompasses epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature. Virtually all societies have developed folk tales encompassing tales of heroes. Although many of these are legends, many are based on real events and historical figures.
The Muʻallaqāt (Arabic: المعلقات, [ʔalmuʕallaqaːt]) is a compilation of seven long pre-Islamic Arabic poems. [1] The name means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems , they were named so because these poems were hung in the Kaaba in Mecca , [ 2 ] Some scholars have also suggested that the hanging is figurative, as if the poems ...
Nabati. Nabaṭī (Arabic: الشعر النبطي), historically also known as najdi, is a vernacular Arabic poetry that stems from the Arabic varieties of the Arabian Peninsula. [1] It exists in contrast to the poetry written according to the classical rules of literary Arabic. [2]