... صولاصل ّتوا The chapter explores the role that Muslim mysticism, Sufism, plays in modern Arabic poetry. Early mystic Arabic poetry arose along with the development of Ṣūfī theory at the beginning of the ninth century ad and flourished during the next several centuries. Its origins were rooted...

... ), Najaat Black , Mehmet Kalpaklı , Ottoman Lyric Poetry: an Anthology , Seattle WA: University of Washington Press. 162 Antoon, Sinan ( 2014 ) The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf, New York NY: Palgrave Macmillan...

... on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, it reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret. From early Islam to the modern world, and from Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and India to West and East Africa, the Yemen, and Southeast Asia, the book...

... Alexandrian personalities on the young Badawi, Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi, best known for his contribution to Arabic poetry in the Romantic period. It also looks at two Alexandrian painters, Mahmud Saʻid and Muhammad Nagi, whose works depict social life in the city between the two world wars. al ͑Abbasiyya...

...This chapter examines the emergence of colloquial Arabic poetry as populist-political commentary in Egypt by offering a reading of Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi's series of texts, which figured political contestation in the thematic-formal mould of the sira shaʻbiyya. It first provides...

... magic licit sihr i halal Muhammad Prophet tears mouthless teeth imagery toothless mouth imagery Muslim-Christian relations zunnar Christian Qasida Khaqani ruins atlal Arabic poetry Sasanians Nushirvan Ctesiphon The preceding chapters have tracked the shift in twelfth-century Persian poetry...

... ayyām al ʿarab Akhṭal al Tamīm Bukayr al Aṣamm Bukhārī al Ibn Ḥanbal Aḥmad Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ Rabīʿa ʿEn ʿAvdat inscription Hoyland Robert ʿAbd al Muṭṭalib Pre-Islamic Arabia Arab origins Arabic poetry Arabic language language and identity ethnicity The analysis thus far presents...

... نلا ن ــطـابلاي فن حن ? نيراكر تـسميا ب رغ ـ ـ ــلاي فز ئاـــجذا ـــهفأ The chapter is about the role that Baghdad has played in Arabic poetry since its foundation in 762 ad and throughout the history of Arabic literature. The glorious image of the city perched on both banks...

... understood. While he composed in classical Arabic and in accordance with the conventions of Arabic poetry, he used colloquial language and employed a variety of postclassical metrical forms. Most of them are in a hemistich in classical poetry which forms a complete unit, called here ‘a line’. Ibrā hīm Ajāj...

...-qamar , Beirut: Dār Majallat Shiʿr. —— ( 1964 ), Ghurfa bi-malāyīn al-judrān , Damascus: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Qawmiyya. Moreh, Shmuel ( 1976 ), Modern Arabic Poetry 1800–1970: The Development of Its Forms and Themes Under the Influence of Western Literature...

... Quran Nashīd Nasheed Hymn Arabic poetry military music heroic ethos authentification Music is one of the most powerful means of stirring up emotions and changing or deepening the mood of listeners. Throughout history, societies have used, but have also feared, the affective power of music...

... that role more than the novel. It further discusses some Arabic poetry, and the Arab diaspora, mahjar, in which poetry, as a meta-linguistic discourse reflects on the role of language as a primary marker of Arab identity and emphasises its role in superseding ethnic tensions in the Arab...

... books on Persian literature poetry Arabic Africanus Leo Arabic poetry Carmelite friars Erpenius Thomas Golius Jacobus Qur’an University of Leiden Guadagnoli Filipo Breves arabicae linguae institutiones University of Naples University of Pennsylvania University of Rome University of Turin...