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Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (al-shiʿr al-jāhilī) is the earliest Arabic literary corpus, chiefly monorhymed qaṣīda odes such as the Muʿallaqāt, transmitted through Muslim-era collections, debated for authenticity, and foundational to Classical Arabic and Quranic studies.
Sariqa
Sariqa is the classical Arabic critical term for a poet's taking of meaning, wording, or imagery from another poet and presenting it as his own.
Su'luk poetry
Su'luk poetry (Arabic: شعر الصعاليك) is one of the three main genres of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, composed by outcast raiders called ṣaʿālīk who lived outside the tribal order; its best-known poem is al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab.
Ta'iyyat al-Kubra
Ta'iyyat al-Kubra, also known as Nazm al-Suluk, is a 761-verse Sufi poem by the Egyptian poet 'Umar Ibn al-Farid describing the mystic's ascent toward union with the divine Beloved.
Tammuzi poetry
Tammuzi poetry (الشعر التموزي), also called Tammuzian poetry, is a current in modern Arabic poetry of the 1950s built on the myth of the dying and rising god Tammuz.
Tardiyya
Tardiyya (الطرديّة; plural ṭardiyyāt) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to the hunt, first written as independent poems in the Abbasid period by Abu Nuwas and other court poets.
Tijaniyya devotional poetry
Tijaniyya devotional poetry is religious verse by the Tijaniyya Sufi order in Arabic and African languages, including qasidas by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, chanted at gatherings.
Udhri poetry
Udhri poetry (الشعر العذري, al-ghazal al-'udhri) is a classical Arabic genre of chaste love poetry named for the Banu 'Udhra tribe, peaking in the Umayyad era.