al-Shanfarā

contribution to Arabic literature

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  In Arabic literature: Poetry

  …Evil in His Armpit”) and al-Shanfarā are among the best known of the ṣuʿlūk poets.

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  In Arabic literature: Categories and forms

  …ode of the brigand poet al-Shanfarā was known as Lāmiyyat al-ʿArab (literally, “The L-Poem of the Arabs”). Even when, beginning about the 9th century, the works of poets were habitually collected under different categories, it was still common to refer to famous odes by their rhyming syllable; thus the Nūniyyah…

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  In Islamic arts: Poetry

  …poems by Taʾabbaṭa Sharran and al-Shanfarā, both outlaw warriors. Their verses reveal the wildness of Bedouin life, with its ideals of bravery, revenge, and hospitality. Taʾabbaṭa Sharran is the author of a widely translated “Song of Revenge” (for his uncle), composed in a short, sharp metre. Shanfarā’s lāmiyyah (literally “poem…

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