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Maqṭūʿ
''Maqṭūʿ'' () 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 pun, 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), Arabic riddles, riddles and chronograms. Example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ṣafī Ad-Dīn Al-Ḥillī
Abu ’l-Maḥāsin Ṣafī al-Dīn Abd al-Aziz ibn Saraya al-Ḥillī Banu Tayy, al-Ṭāyyʾī al-Sinbisī (; 26 August 1278 – 1349 Anno Domini, AD/5 Rabi' al-Thani 677 – 749 Anno Hegirae, AH), more commonly known as Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī or Ṣafiddīn al-Ḥilli (), was a 14th-century Arabs, Arab Arabic poetry, warrior poet. Life Despite his being one of the most famous poets of his century, the historical record of Al-Hilli's life is often vague. Al-Hilli's birth is recorded as 26 August 1278 in most sources, though one of his contemporaries gives his birth as October or November 1279. He was born in Hillah, modern-day Iraq, to a Shia Islam, Shia Muslim family of the renowned Banu Tayy, Tayyi tribe. Early in life, after one of his uncles was murdered, Al-Hilli fought in a battle to avenge his death. He wrote poems about his family's exploits in this battle, which garnered a lot of attention. After he achieved his initial success as a poet, a war broke out, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Prosody
(, ) or () is the study of poetic meters, which identifies the meter of a poem and determines whether the meter is sound or broken in lines of the poem. It is often called the ''Science of Poetry'' (, ). Its laws were laid down by Al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī (d. 786), an early Arab lexicographer and philologist. In his book (), which is no longer extant, he described 15 types of meter. Later Al-Akhfash al-Akbar described a 16th meter, the . Following al-Khalil, the Arab prosodists scan poetry not in terms of syllables but in terms of vowelled and unvowelled letters, which were combined into larger units known as or "peg" (pl. ) and "cord" (pl. ). These larger units make up feet (, pl. ). Western prosodists, on the other hand, usually analyse the meters in terms of syllables, which can be long (–), short (u) and ''anceps'' (x), that is, a syllable which can be optionally long or short. Certain meters also have ''biceps'' positions where a pair of short syllable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamāl Al-Dīn Ibn Nubāta
Abu Bakr Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṭīb ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Nubāta, better known simply as Ibn Nubāta (Arabic: ; April 1287 – October 14, 1366) was an Arab poet of the Mamluk period. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote prose. His works are largely not, or not critically, edited to this day, but in 2018 Thomas Bauer was reported to be completing an edition of his ''al-Qaṭr an-Nubātī'' ('Ibn Nubātah's Sweet Drops').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); . Research on Ibn Nubata's work is still in its infancy. Ibn Nubata was the son of a Hadith scholar and from early youth his interest in poetry emerged in short poems he wrote. Born in Fusṭāṭ, in 1316 he left Cairo for Damascus and lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Poetry
Arabic poetry ( ''ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy'') is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st century BCE, with oral poetry likely being much older still. 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 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad Al-Murādī
Ibrahim (, "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 1–5: Purpose of Revelation & Role of Prophets 6–8: Reminder of Allah’s Favor & Warning of Ingratitude 9–14: Past Nations and Their Rejection of Prophets 15–17: Scene from Hell & Fate of the Arrogant 18–20: Worthlessness of Disbelief 21–22: Shaytan’s Speech & Regret of Followers 23–27: Parables and Reward of Believers Verse24��25: Parable of the good tree – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muḥammad Khalīl Al-Murādī
Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 1791) — was an Arab Muslim 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 ... [...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: Places * Badr, Egypt, a city * Badr, Libya, a town in Libya * Badr, Saudi Arabia, a city in Saudi Arabia **Battle of Badr, a battle in the early days of Islam near the present-day city *Badr Rural District (other), various administrative subdivisions of Iran * Ash-Shaykh Badr, a city in Syria * 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 * PNS Badr 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 in 1990 **Badr-B or Badr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
