The Hamasah (; ) is a genre of Arabic poetry that "recounts chivalrous exploits in the context of
military
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...
glories and victories".
The first work in this genre is
Kitab al-Hamasah
''Ḥamāsah'' (from Arabic حماسة ''valour'') is a well-known ten-book anthology of Arabic poetry, compiled in the 9th century by Abu Tammam. Along with the '' Asma'iyyat'', ''Mufaddaliyat'', '' Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab'', and ''Mu'allaqat'', ...
of
Abu Tammam
Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī (; ca. 796/807 - 845), better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām (), was an Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents. He is best known in literature by his 9th-century compilation of early poems kno ...
.
Hamasah works
List of popular Hamasah works:
* ''Hamasah'' of Abu Tammam.
* ''Al-Waḥshiyyāt (Book of Stray Verses)'' or ''al-Ḥamāsah al-ṣughrā (The Lesser Ḥamāsah)'' by Abu Tammam.
*
Al-Buhturi
Al-Walīd ibn Ubaidillah Al-Buḥturī ( ar, أبو الوليد بن عبيدالله البحتري التنوخي, al-Walīd ibn `Ubayd Allāh al-Buhturī) (821–97 AD; 206–84 AH) was an Arab poet born at Manbij in Islamic Syria, between Al ...
compiled a Hamasah that is divided into 174 abwab.
* ''Ḥamāsat al-ẓurafāʾ (Poems of the Refined and Witty)'' by Al-ʿAbdalkānī al-Zawzanī (d. 431/1039).
* ''Al-Ḥamāsah al-Shajariyyah'' of Ibn al-Shajarī (d. 542/1148)
* ''Al-Ḥamāsah al-Maghribiyyah'' by Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Salām al-Jurāwī (d. 609/1212)
* ''Al-Ḥamāsah al-Baṣriyyah'' by Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī l-Faraj al-Baṣrī (d. probably 659/1249)
* ''Al-Ḥamāsah al-saʿdiyyah'' (known also as ''al-Tadhkirah al-saʿdiyyah'') by al-ʿUbaydī (d. eighth/fourteenth century)
Lost works:
* ''Ḥamāsah'' of Ibn al-Marzubān (d. 309/921).
* ''Al-Ḥamāsah al-muḥdathah (The Modern Ḥamāsah)'' by Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004).
* Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī known to have compiled a Ḥamāsah.
* Al-Shantamarī (d. 476/1083) wrote a Ḥamāsah that is not to be confused with his commentary on the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām.
* Al-Shāṭibī (d. 547/1152) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
* Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Bayyāsī (d. 653/1255) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
* ''Ḥamāsat al-muḥdathīn (The Ḥamāsah of the Modern Poets)'' by * Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Hāshim al-Khālidī (d. 380/990) and Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Hāshim (d. 390/999).
* Ḥamāsah by an unknown Abū Dimāsh
References
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Arab culture
Literary genres
Arabic poetry forms
Arabic anthologies
Arabic words and phrases