Arabic literature

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written literature in Arabic language

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The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode. The qasida originated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and passed into non-Arabic cultures after the Arab Muslim expansion.

Muwashshah ( '''' 'girdled'; plural '; also ' 'girdling,' pl. ') is a strophic poetic form that developed in al-Andalus in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The ', embodying the Iberian rhyme revolution, was the major Andalusi innovation in Arabic poetry, and it was sung and performed musically. The muwaššaḥ features a complex rhyme and metrical scheme usually containing five '''' ( 'branches'; sing. '), with uniform rhyme within each strophe, interspersed with ' ( 'threads for stringing pearls'; sing. '') with common rhyme throughout the song, as well as a terminal kharja'' ( 'exit'), t

type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information

Saj' () is a form of rhymed prose defined by its relationship to and use of end-rhyme, meter, and parallelism. There are two types of parallelism in saj': iʿtidāl (rhythmical parallelism, meaning "balance") and muwāzana (qualitative metrical parallelism).

literary genre about pre-Islamic Arabian war

The '''''qit'a''''' (from or 'piece') is a form of monorhyme poetry that usually appears in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other associated literature.

Tezkire (), from Arabic tadhkirah meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum", is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. The most widely known are the tezkires of poets, but the books also focused on the works of government officials and artists in general. First seen in early Arab literature before the 10th century, they then made their way into Persian literature and later Ottoman literature.

Arabic literature by writers from Syria

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thumbnail|right|Book cover of ''Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra by Shaykh al-Islam [[Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370)]] Tabaqat ( ṭabaqāt) is a genre of Islamic biographical literature that is organized according to the century in which the notable individuals (such as scholars, poets, etc.) lived. Each century or generation is known as a ṭabaqah, the plural of which is ṭabaqāt. The ṭabaqāt writings depict the past of a particular tradition of religious affiliation or scholarship and follows a chronological parameter that stretch from an authoritative starting-point to the generation (ṭabaqah'

book by Ḥājjī Khalīfah

9th century Arabic paraphrase of parts of Plotinus' Six Enneads along with Porphyry's commentary; falsely attributed to Aristotle

biographical dictionary by Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli

literature by people from Morocco

Overview of Bible translations into Arabic

Book written by Utbi

Waṣf () (literally 'attribute' or 'description'; pl. ) is an ancient style of Arabic poetry, which can be characterised as descriptive verse. The concept of was also borrowed into Persian, which developed its own rich poetic tradition in this mode.

Al-Istiqsa () or Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa () is a multivolume history of Morocco by Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri first published in Cairo in 1894. It was the first comprehensive national history of Morocco, covering the history of al-Maghrib al-Aqsa (Morocco) from the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb to the reign of Abdelaziz of Morocco in 1894.

wit and humor in Arab culture

history of oral and written literature in Sudan

epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature