tardiyyah

Arabic poetic genre

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  • world distribution of Islam
    In Arabic literature: Later genres

    …other categories, khamriyyāt (wine poems), ṭardiyyāt (hunt poems), zuhdiyyāt (ascetic poems), and ghazal (love poems).

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  • world distribution of Islam
    In Arabic literature: Hunt poetry

    The many hunt scenes to be found in the earliest Arabic poetry—one of the most notable is in Imruʾ al-Qays’s muʿallaqah—illustrate the love of this sport among the Arabs of the desert, one that continues to the present day. As the pre-Islamic qaṣīdah

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