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The qasida originated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and passed into non-Arabic cultures after the Arab Muslim expansion. [ 1 ] The word qasida is originally an Arabic word ( قصيدة , plural qaṣā’id , قصائد ), and is still used throughout the Arabic-speaking world; it was borrowed into some other languages such as Persian ...
The kāmil metre has been used for Arabic poetry since early times and accounts for about 18%-20% of the poems in early collections. [1] Two of the famous seven pre-Islamic Mu‘allaqāt poems (the 4th and 6th) are written in the kāmil metre. [4] One of these is the mu‘allaqa of Labid ibn Rabi‘a, which begins as follows:
As of 2024, the Library of Arabic Literature has published more than fifty bilingual hardcover edition-translations and more than forty English-only paperbacks. [8] Arabic-only PDFs are also available for download from the website for free. All books are published in all three formats unless otherwise noted.
The project had its genesis in the late 1970s when Columbia University Press invited Jayyusi to prepare a large anthology of modern Arabic literature. Funding came from the Iraqi Ministry of Information and Culture. Two major anthologies came out of this early endeavour: Modern Arabic Poetry (1987) and The Literature of Modern Arabia (1988). [5]
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 2. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18572-6. Moreh, S. (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry 1800–1970: The Development of its Forms and Themes under the Influence of Western Literature. Studies in Arabic Literature, 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-04795-6
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The Lāmiyyāt al-‘Arab (the L-song of the Arabs) is the pre-eminent poem in the surviving canon of the pre-Islamic 'brigand-poets' . The poem also gained a foremost position in Western views of the Orient from the 1820s onwards. [1] The poem takes its name from the last letter of each of its 68 lines, L (Arabic ل, lām).