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  2. Lamiyyat al-'Arab - Wikipedia

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    The Lāmiyyāt al-‘Arab (the L-song of the Arabs) is the pre-eminent poem in the surviving canon of the pre-Islamic 'brigand-poets' ().The poem also gained a foremost position in Western views of the Orient from the 1820s onwards. [1]

  3. The Luzumiyat - Wikipedia

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    The Luzumiyat (Arabic: اللزوميات) is the second collection of poetry by al-Ma'arri, comprising nearly 1600 short poems [1] organised in alphabetical order and observing a novel double-consonant rhyme scheme devised by the poet himself. [2] [3]: 336

  4. Arabic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي 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 ...

  5. Fique - Wikipedia

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    Uña de águila (eagle nail) Negra común (black common) Chachagueña; Genoia; Tunosa común (common spiked) Jardineña; Espadilla; Rabo de chucha (opossum tail). Optimal conditions for the growing of the fique plant are: Temperature: 19 °C – 23 °C; Altitude: 1,300 m – 1,900 m; Annual rainfall: 1,000 mm – 1,600 mm; Sunlight: 5–6 hours/day

  6. Arabic prosody - Wikipedia

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    The feet of an Arabic poem are traditionally represented by mnemonic words called tafāʿīl (تفاعيل).In most poems there are eight of these: four in the first half of the verse and four in the second; in other cases, there will be six of them, meaning three in the first half of the verse and three in the second.

  7. Maguey flower - Wikipedia

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    The maguey flower (Agave spp.), in Spanish, flor de maguey (Spanish pronunciation:), also known locally as gualumbo, hualumbo, quiote or jiote [1] [n. 1] is a typical product of Mexican cuisine, cultivated mainly in the rural areas of the center of the country.

  8. Agave americana - Wikipedia

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    Agave americana, commonly known as the century plant, [5] maguey, or American aloe, [6] is a flowering plant species belonging to the family Asparagaceae.It is native to Mexico and the United States, specifically Texas.

  9. Qasida - Wikipedia

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    The qasida originated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and passed into non-Arabic cultures after the Arab Muslim expansion. [ 1 ] The word qasida is originally an Arabic word ( قصيدة , plural qaṣā’id , قصائد ), and is still used throughout the Arabic-speaking world; it was borrowed into some other languages such as Persian ...