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Al-Amali
Al-Amali (الأمالي, "The Dictations") is a tenth-century Arabic anthology of language and poetry dictated in Cordoba by Abu Ali al-Qali, one of the four pillars of adab named by Ibn Khaldun.
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة)
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة), formally al-Kawākib al-Durriyya, is al-Busiri's 7th-century AH Arabic ode praising the Prophet Muhammad, in ten chapters and about 160 verses, distinct from Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's original Burda and widely recited, commented, and translated.
Al-Ma'arri
Al-Ma'arri (أبو العلاء المعري, 973–1057), Arab Abbasid poet and philosopher of Ma'arrat al-Numan, blind from childhood, author of Saqt al-Zand, the Luzumiyat, and Risalat al-Ghufran, famous for forty years of seclusion, asceticism, and the centuries-long controversy over his creed.
Andalusi poetry
Andalusi poetry (الشعر الأندلسي) is the Arabic poetry of al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Iberia, which developed from eastern models into distinctive strophic forms, the muwashshah and zajal.
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Antarah ibn Shaddad (عنترة بن شداد), pre-Islamic Arabian warrior-poet of Banu 'Abs, author of one of the Mu'allaqat; son of an Abyssinian slave mother, lover of 'Abla, hero of the epic Sīrat 'Antar, and one of the canonical Six Poets.
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي)
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي), measured rhymed verse in Arabic from the pre-Islamic era onward: al-Khalil's sixteen metres, the monorhyme qasida, the Mu'allaqat, Abbasid and Andalusian forms, and the Nahda revival.
Arabic popular poetry
Arabic popular poetry (الشعر الشعبي), also called shiʿr al-ʿāmmiyya, is poetry composed in spoken Arabic dialects rather than Classical Arabic, transmitted by performance and song.
Contemporary Egyptian poetry
Contemporary Egyptian poetry is modern poetry written in Egypt in literary Arabic and the Egyptian colloquial dialect, spanning classical metrical verse, free verse, and the prose poem.
Diwan of Abu Nuwas
The Diwan of Abu Nuwas (ديوان أبي نواس) is the collected poetry of Abbasid poet Abu Nuwas (c. 756–c. 810), best known for its wine poetry and libertine verse.
Diwan of al-Khansa
The Diwan of al-Khansa (ديوان الخنساء) is the collected poetry of al-Khansa, a pre-Islamic Arab poet of Banu Sulaym, dominated by elegies for her brothers Sakhr and Muawiya.
Egyptian romantic school
The Egyptian romantic school (المدرسة الرومانسية المصرية), also called the Apollo School, was a poetic movement in 1930s and 1940s Egypt whose doctrine was Romanticism.
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry is pre-Islamic Arabic praise verse composed for the Lakhmid court at al-Hira in Iraq and the Ghassanid court in Byzantine Syria.
Ghazal
Ghazal (غزل): love-lyric form originating in 7th-century Arabic poetry as the nasib of the qasida, fixed as a 5–15 couplet monorhyme form in Persian (Rumi, Hafez), dominant in Urdu (Ghalib), and adapted into English by Agha Shahid Ali.
Hija'
Hija' (الهِجَاء) is a principal genre of classical Arabic poetry, defined as the opposite of praise, in which the poet attacks an enemy with blame and mockery.
Hikma poetry
Hikma poetry, also called wisdom poetry (شعر الحكمة), is a classical Arabic genre distilling counsel and moral instruction into verse, later led by Abu al-Atahiyah and al-Ma'arri.
Khamriyya
Khamriyya (الخمريات) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to wine, the cupbearer, and the drinking party, crystallizing in Abbasid Baghdad with Abū Nuwās as its master poet.
Kharja (خرجة)
Kharja (خرجة, jarcha): the short closing section of the Andalusi muwashshah, written in colloquial Arabic or Romance, often in a woman's voice; the Romance kharjas are the oldest recorded Romance lyric poetry.
Madih nabawi
Madih nabawi, meaning prophetic praise, is the Arabic poetic genre of verses in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, whose canonical text is al-Busiri's 13th-century Burda.
Modern Arabic poetry
Modern Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي الحديث) is the poetry written in Arabic from the late nineteenth century to the present, spanning four stages and pioneering free verse after 1948.
Modern Egyptian poetry
Modern Egyptian poetry (الشعر المصري الحديث) is Arabic poetry written in Egypt from the late nineteenth century onward, beginning with the revival school of Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi.
Modern Iraqi poetry
Modern Iraqi poetry is the Arabic-language poetry of Iraq, pioneered in free verse by Nazik al-Mala'ika and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose 1947 works led Arabic poetry.
Modern Syrian poetry
Modern Syrian poetry is Arabic-language poetry from Syria, a principal center of the move from the classical qasida to free verse and the prose poem.
Modernism in Arabic poetry
Modernism in Arabic poetry, al-ḥadāthah al-shiʿriyyah, is the movement that broke the classical Arabic poem's fixed meter and single rhyme, beginning in the late 1940s.
Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum
The Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum is one of the seven pre-Islamic Arabic odes called the Mu'allaqat, a boast in praise of the tribe of Taghlib.
Mu'allaqa of Antarah
The Mu'allaqa of Antarah (معلاقة عنترة) is a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabic ode, the "Suspended Ode" of the sixth-century warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad of the tribe of 'Abs.
Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays
The Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays (معلقة امرئ القيس) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode attributed to Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi (died around 544 CE) that opens "Qifa nabki" and is counted among the seven celebrated Mu'allaqat.
Mu'allaqa of Labid
The Mu'allaqa of Labid (معلقة لبيد) is a pre-Islamic Arabic qaṣīdah by the poet Labid ibn Rabi'ah, one of the celebrated anthology of odes known as the Mu'allaqāt.
Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr
The Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr (معلقة زهير بن أبي سلمى) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode by Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma commemorating the 585 peace between 'Abs and Dhubyan.
Nationalist poetry
Nationalist poetry, known in Arabic as al-shiʿr al-waṭanī (الشعر الوطني), is poetry expressing love of homeland; in Arabic literature it spans patriotic and pan-Arab verse.
Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry
Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry (Arabic: مدرسة الإحياء والبعث), the school of revival and resurrection, was a 19th-century movement restoring the classical qasidah, founded by Mahmud Sami al-Barudi.