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The concept of amūd al-shi‘r, denoting the fundamental aspects of poetry within Arabic literary criticism, serves as the cornerstone and foundation representing the classical Arabic poetry method and style in poetic composition.
Hatice Derebaşı, Şükran Fazlıoğlu
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Poetry and the Qurʾan: The Use of tashbīh Particles in Classical Arabic Texts
This study examines the use of five tashbīh (simile) particles which appear in close frequency in pre-and early Islamic poetry and in the Qurʾan. The particles are ka-(as), ka-mā (such as), mithl (like), and derivatives of the roots ḥsb (deem) and shbh ...
Ali Ahmad Hussein
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A study of the critical views of Ezedin Ismael on poetic images [PDF]
Introduction: Defamiliarization involves infinite techniques that distinguish literary language from colloquial and ordinary language. Sometimes these tricks and arrangements lose their ability to induce concepts due to their frequent and repetitive ...
Davoud Shirvani, Hedayatollah Taghizadeh
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The Riddle of the Thread: On Arabic ghazal
Ghazal is the Arabic word for “amatory verse”, and in other languages of the Islamic world it designates a sonnet-like poetic form. The notion that the word stems from Arabic ghazl “spinning thread” is widely held, despite the absence of support for ...
David Larsen
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Eliotic Seeds in B. S. Al Sayyab's Poem "The Rain Song'': An Analytical Study
"The Rain Song" is considered one of the most notable poems of modern Arabic poetry in general and of B. S. Al Sayyab in particular. It is a landmark in the history of modern Arabic poetry. The present paper aims at unearthing the seeds of T. S.
Ahmed Taher Abdu Nagi
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Neo-classicism in modern Arabic poetry
<p><em>Modern neo-classical poetry constitutes a phase of literature that can be sharply separated from its immediate ancestry. Arab poets composed by imitative versifiers who very rarely employed it as a means of expressing fresh human experience.
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On Distinctiveness of the Arabic Poetic Canon of the 13th to 18th Centuries [PDF]
The long period of the 13th to 18th centuries in Arab history has hardly received exhaustive treatment in international scholarship. To account for this deficiency, one might note that while in recent decades there has been much accomplished in the field
Alexander B. Kudelin
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From the poetic heritage of Sulayman, bishop of Gaza (10th–11th cent.) [PDF]
The publication presents a commented interlinear and literary translation of two qasidas (poems) from the Divan (collection) of the first known Arab Christian poet – Sulayman al-Ghazzi, bishop of Gaza in Palestine (Xth-XIth cent.). His poetic work is the
Sofia Melikyan, Anastasia Edelshtain
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula [PDF]
"As far back as we can go in the past history of the Arabs and Arabia, we find poetry present as a huge memorial to their real and imaginary heroic exploits, as a witness to their way of life and feelings, and most of all as an expression of the deepest ...
Jargy, Simon
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