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Maqṭūʿ
''Maqṭūʿ'' ( ar, مقطوع) or ''maqṭūʿah'' (plural ''maqāṭīʿ'') is a form of Arabic poetry. ''Maqāṭīʿ'' are epigrammatic: brief and generally witty. In the view of Adam Talib, the genre has been underrated by Western scholars, partly because of the low regard for extremely short verse forms in Western traditions.Adam Talib, ''How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison'', Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 40 (Leiden: Brill, 2018); . Form ''Maqṭūʿ'' poems are mostly of two lines, but occasionally as short as one or as many as ten; they are composed in the classical metres of Arabic prosody and are characterised by a premise-exposition-resolution structure, frequently including play on words and double entendre. Popular subject matter in the genre includes people (with the final hemistich mentioning their name), ekphrasis (making such poems part of the ''waṣf'' genre), riddles and chronograms. Example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ʿAlī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Al-Riḍā Ibn Muḥammad Al-Ḥusaynī Al-Musāwī Al-Ṭūsī
Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Riḍā ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Musāwī al-Ṭūsī, also known as Ibn al-Sharīf Dartarkhwān al-Ādhilī (b. 589 AH/1193 CE in Ḥamāh, Syria; d. 655 AH/1257 CE), was a poet. He is noted as the author of the ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'' ('one thousand and one slave-women'), which survives in one manuscript of 255 folios, now in the Austrian National Library. The work seems to have been a sequel to the same author's ''Alf ghulām wa-ghulām'' ('one thousand and one male slaves'), now lost; ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'' comprises eight chapters of short poems in the epigrammatic form known as ''Maqṭūʿ, maqṭū'' (pl. ''maqāṭī''). Examples The following examples come from the sixth chapter of ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'', in which each three-verse epigram celebrates the women of a different city of the Islamic world. This example is in the ''sarīʿ'' metre:Jürgen W. Weil,Girls from Morocco and Spain: Selected Poems from an ''adab'' Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Riddles
Riddles are historically a significant genre of Arabic literature. The Qur’an does not contain riddles as such, though it does contain conundra. But riddles are attested in early Arabic literary culture, 'scattered in old stories attributed to the pre-Islamic bedouins, in the ''ḥadīth'' and elsewhere; and collected in chapters'. Since the nineteenth century, extensive scholarly collections have also been made of riddles in oral circulation. Although in 1996 the Syrian proverbs scholar Khayr al-Dīn Shamsī Bāshā published a survey of Arabic riddling, analysis of this literary form has been neglected by modern scholars, including its emergence in Arabic writing; there is also a lack of editions of important collections. A major study of grammatical and semantic riddles was, however, published in 2012, and since 2017 legal riddles have enjoyed growing attention.Elias G. Saba, ''Harmonizing Similarities: A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law'', Islam – Thought, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Poetry
Arabic poetry ( ar, الشعر العربي ''ash-shi‘ru al-‘Arabīyyu'') is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in ''The Science of ‘ Arud''. Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" (''buḥūr''). The measuring unit of seas is known as "''taf‘īlah''," and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse (''bayt'') of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the ''bayt'' from one meter to another. Also, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ṣalāḥ Ad-Dīn Al-Ṣafadī
Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī, or Salah al-Dīn al-Ṣafadī; full name - Salah al-Dīn Abū al-Ṣafa Khalīl ibn Aybak ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Albakī al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363); he was a Turkic Mamluk author and historian. He studied under the historian and Shafi'i scholar, al-Dhahabi. He was born in Safad, Palestine under Mamluk rule. His wealthy family afforded him a broad education, memorising the Qur’ān and reciting the books of Ḥadīth. He excelled in the social sciences of grammar, language, philology and calligraphy. He painted on canvas, and was especially passionate about literature. He taught himself poetry, its systems, transmitters and meters. His teachers Among Ṣafadī’s many teachers from Safad, Damascus, Cairo and Aleppo were: * Al-Ḥāfīz Fatḥ al-Dīn ibn Sayyid al-Nās (d.734AH / 1333), with whom he studied literature in Cairo. * Ibn al-Nabatah Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Farqī al-Maṣrī (d.768AH / 1367) * Abū Hayyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad Al-Murādī
Ibrahim ( ar, إبراهيم, ; Arabic synonym of "Abraham") is the 14th chapter (surah) of the Qur'an with 52 verses ( āyāt). The surah emphasizes that only God knows what goes on inside a man's heart, implying we must accept each other's words in good faith (14:38). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (''asbāb al-nuzūl''), it is a "Meccan surah", which means it is believed to have been revealed in Mecca, instead of later in Medina. It was revealed around 2-3 years before Hijrah, in a later stage of Muhammad preaching in Mecca when persecution of him and fellow Muslims had become severe. Summary *1 The Quran given to guide men out of darkness into light *2-3 A grievous punishment awaits the infidels *4 Apostles always use the language of their people *5 Moses sent to Pharaoh and his people *6-8 His message to the children of Israel *9-13 Former prophets were rejected in spite of their miracles *13-14 Miracles only possible by the will of Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muḥammad Khalīl Al-Murādī
Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 1791) — was a Syrian historian under the Ottoman Empire. He was born into a family of ulema and acted as Hanafi mufti and '' naqib al-ashraf'' (head of the Prophet's descendants) in Damascus. He wrote a set of over 1,000 biographies of people of his time, entitled ''Silk al-durar''."al-Murādī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012. 10 October 2012 Editions *Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. ''Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar''. Būlāq: Al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1874-83. *Muḥammad Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. ''Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar''. Ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir Shāhīn, 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1997. *A sequence of twenty-nine mostly two-line '' maqāṭīʿ'' poems ending in the hemistich 'sweeter even than the juice of myrtle berries', which al-Murādī included in his entry for his uncle Ibrāhīm ibn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badr Ad-Dīn Ibn Ḥabīb Al-Ḥalabī
Badr ( Arabic: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the " full moon on its fourteenth night" or the ecclesiastical full moon. Badr may refer to: .and it is also one of the oldest and rarest names in the Arabic dialect Places * Badr, Egypt, a city *Badr, Libya, a town in Libya * Badr, Saudi Arabia, a city in Saudi Arabia *Badr Rural District (other), administrative subdivisions of Iran * Ash-Shaykh Badr, a city in Syria *Battle of Badr, a battle in the early days of Islam *Hala-'l Badr, a volcano in Saudi Arabia *Sheikh Badr, a depopulated village in Jerusalem People * Badr (name) Military *Operation Badr (other), any of four war operations *Badr-1 (rocket), Yemeni rocket artillery system * Badr-2000, Iraqi proposed ballistic missile Other *Badr Airlines, based in Khartoum, Sudan *Badr Organization, a political party in Iraq *Badr (satellite), a series of satellites operated by Pakistan, including: ** Badr-1, launched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
