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Al-Ahwas was an acquaintance of caliph Al-Walid I and frequented the caliph's parties; however, after it came out that Al-Ahwas tried to seduce some of the boy servants of another guest to have intercouse with him, [2] he lost the caliph's favor and even got whipped by the order of the then governor of Madinah and future caliph, Umar ibn Abd al ...
In these preludes, a thematic unit called "nasib," the poet would remember his beloved and her deserted home and its ruins. [5] This concept in Arabic poetry is referred to as "al-woqouf `ala al-atlal" (الوقوف على الأطلال / standing by the ruins) because the poet would often start his poem by saying that he stood at the ruins of ...
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 ]
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.
Juz' Amara' al-Madinah al-Munawwarah: Khandlawi saw the need to compile a book to clarify the names of the princes of Al-Madinah in chronological order, in order to facilitate mentioning their names when discussing their events. He organized this book into two tables. In the first table, he mentioned the names of all the princes of Al-Madinah.
Nasīb (Arabic: النسيب) is an Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.' [1] However, although at the beginning of the form's development nasīb meant 'love-song', it came to cover much wider kinds of content: [2] 'The nasīb usually is understood as the first part ...
Jamīl ibn 'Abd Allāh ibn Ma'mar al-'Udhrī (Arabic: جميل بن عبد الله بن معمر العذري; d.701 CE), also known as Jamil Buthayna, was a classical Arabic love poet. He belonged to the Banu 'Udhra tribe which was renowned for its poetic tradition of chaste love.
Ibn al-Saffar's book on astrolabes was read for centuries. Writing in math and astronomy flourished in this period with the influence of Maslama al-Majriti (1007), who developed the work of Ptolemy and al-Khwarizmi. [5] Ibn al-Saffar wrote about the astrolabe and influenced European science into the 15th century. [15]