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Classical poetry was written before the Arabic renaissance (An-Nahḍah). Thus, all poetry that was written in the classical style is called "classical" or "traditional poetry" since it follows the traditional style and structure. It is also known as "vertical poetry" in reference to its vertical parallel structure of its two parts. Modern ...
Nabati poetry frequently explores themes that resonate with those found in classical Arabic poetry. However, nabati poetry distinguishes itself through the use of colloquial Arabic, differing from the formal Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) used in classical works. This shift in language contributes to a more direct style, which creates a sense of ...
The kāmil metre has been used for Arabic poetry since early times and accounts for about 18%-20% of the poems in early collections. [1] Two of the famous seven pre-Islamic Mu‘allaqāt poems (the 4th and 6th) are written in the kāmil metre. [4] One of these is the mu‘allaqa of Labid ibn Rabi‘a, which begins as follows:
Lamma Bada Yatathanna (Arabic: لما بدا يتثنى) is an Arabic muwashshah of the Nahawand maqam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem is considered one of the most famous Arabic pieces of its era. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Analysis of anthologies of classical Arabic poetry shows that some of these meters are much more common than others. [3] The most common meter by far in early poetry is the ṭawīl ; the kāmil , wāfir , and basīṭ are also fairly common; the rajaz/sarīʿ (which are sometimes considered to be variants of the same meter) and the mutaqārib ...
The poems of 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Al-Nabigha are from the same period. In Al-Nabigha's poem sometimes reckoned as a Muʻallaqah, he addresses himself to the king of al-Hirah, al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir, who reigned in the two last decades of the sixth century. The same king is mentioned as a contemporary in one of poems of ʻAlqama.
Sephardic poets also composed muwaššaḥāt in Hebrew, sometimes as contrafacta imitating the rhyme and metrical scheme of a particular poem in Hebrew or in Arabic. This poetic imitation, called muʿāraḍa (مُعَارَضَة 'contrafaction'), is a tradition in Arabic poetry.