Didactic poetry, Arabic

by Van Gelder, Geert Jan

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Arabic didactic poetry , taken in a broad sense, intends to instil morals or impart information. By this definition much of Arabic poetry is didactic, such as the gnomic verse found at the end of the Muʿallaqa poem of the pre-Islamic poet Zuhayr b. Abī Sulmā and the aphorisms that punctuate countless qaṣīda s and epigrams throughout the centuries. The dīwān of al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/965) especially has always been a beloved treasure trove of quotable wisdom, in the form of one-line maxims. In the…

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Arabic didactic poetry , taken in a broad sense, intends to instil morals or impart information. By this definition much of Arabic poetry is didactic, such as the gnomic verse found at the end of the Muʿallaqa poem of the pre-Islamic poet Zuhayr b. Abī Sulmā and the aphorisms that punctuate countless qaṣīda s and epigrams throughout the centuries. The dīwān of al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/965) especially has always been a beloved treasure trove of quotable wisdom, in the form of one-line maxims. In the terminology of the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1816

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eng Islam

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Van Gelder, Geert Jan

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