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Riddles are known in Arabic principally as lughz (Arabic: لُغز) (pl. alghāz ألغاز), but other terms include uḥjiyya (pl. aḥājī), and ta'miya. [2] Lughz is a capacious term. [13] As al-Nuwayrī (1272–1332) puts it in the chapter on alghāz and aḥājī in his Nihāyat al-Arab fī funūn al-adab:
The Uḥjiyyat al-ʿArab ('riddle-poem of the Arabs') is a qaṣīda by the early eighth-century CE poet Dhū al-rumma containing the earliest substantial collection of Arabic riddles, thought to have been influential on later Arabic verse riddlers, [1] and perhaps on Arabic ekphrastic poetry more widely.
Arabic-language riddles have been the subject of targeted academic research. Although this article, as it stands, is a small beginning, the distinctive character of the Arabic-language riddle tradition means that it deserves more precise coverage than the entry for Riddles can afford.
A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
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Ibn al-ʿAjamī was born into the Banū l-ʿAjamī, the pre-eminent exponents of the Shāfiʿī school of jurisprudence in Aleppo eleventh- to twelfth-century Aleppo. [1]: 68 Their epithet al-ʿAjamī ('the Persian') reflected the family's roots in Nishapur, and their political position was bolstered by the Ayyubid dynasty's adherence to Shāfiʿī thought.
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Arabic: أبو العلاء المعري, [a] (December 973 – May 1057), [1] also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis; [2] was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria. [3] Because of his controversially irreligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time ...
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