Macaronic Arabic poetry

by Harb, Lara

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Macaronic poetry is a kind of mixed-language verse emerging from the mediaeval European context, which also exists in the mediaeval Islamicate world. While examples of macaronic poetry existed in mediaeval Arabic literature, the phenomenon did not develop into a formal artistic practice as it did in Persian and later in Turkish poetry. The macaronic poem in Persian was a well-established poetic form known as mulammaʿ (variegated in color), which typically entailed alternating between a hemistic…

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Macaronic poetry is a kind of mixed-language verse emerging from the mediaeval European context, which also exists in the mediaeval Islamicate world. While examples of macaronic poetry existed in mediaeval Arabic literature, the phenomenon did not develop into a formal artistic practice as it did in Persian and later in Turkish poetry. The macaronic poem in Persian was a well-established poetic form known as mulammaʿ (variegated in color), which typically entailed alternating between a hemistich or a verse in Arabic and one in Persian (Rāduyānī, 107; Vaṭvāṭ, 63;

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3014

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eng Islam

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Harb, Lara

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