(Jahiliyah [Pre-Islamic Arabia] & Early Islam)
Granada by Nizar Qabbani. Translated by Habeeb Salloum/Contributing Writer After touring the Alhambra Palace in Granada with a beautiful Andalusian guide, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani wrote: At the entrance of Alhambra was our meeting, How sweet is a rendezvous not thought of before. Two soft black eyes in perfect frames enticing. Read all poems of Nizar Qabbani and infos about Nizar Qabbani. Qabbani was revered by generations of Arabs for his sensual and romantic verse. His work was featured not only in his two dozen volumes of poetry and in regular contributions to the Arabic-language.
---Antara & --- Ablah
- Abu Tammam
- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
- Amr ibn Kulthum
- Antarah ibn Shaddad (525–615) عنترة
- Busayri
- Farazdaq, ca. 641-ca. 728
- Abu l-Hasan al-Husri (d. 1095)
- Imru' al-Qays
- Majnun Layla [a.k.a. Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah]
- The Man Who Loved Too Much : The Legend of Leyli and Majnun / by Jean-Pierre Guinhut, (French Ambassador to Azerbaijan) - Azerbaijan International, Autumn 1998 (6.3)
- Nabighah al-Dhubyani
- Imam al-shafi'i
- Tarafah ibn al-'Abd
- Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
- KITAB AL-`ILAL (A paper read at the 1960 annual meeting of the American Oriental Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, and updated in 2006)
- Urwah ibn al-Ward
LAMIYAT AL ARAB لامـيـّة الـعـرب لـلـشـنـفـرى
The Lāmiyyāt ‘al-Arab (the L-song of the Arabs) is the pre-eminent poem in the surviving canon of the pre-Islamic 'brigand-poets' ( الـشـعـراء الـصـعـالـيـك al-shu‘arā’ al-ṣa‘ālīk). It was included in the seminal anthology of pre-Islamic verse, the eighth-century CE Mufaḍḍaliyāt, and attracted extensive commentary in the medieval Arabic tradition. The poem also gained a foremost position in Western views of the Orient from the 1820s onwards.[1] The poem takes its name from the last letter of each of its 68 lines, L (Arabic ل, lām). The poem is traditionally attributed to the putatively sixth-century CE outlaw (ṣu‘lūk) Al-Shanfarā, but it has been suspected since medieval times that it was actually composed during the Islamic period, conceivably—as reported by the medieval commentator al-Qālī (d. 969 CE) -- by the early anthologist Khalaf al-Aḥmar.[2] The debate has not been resolved; if the poem is a later composition, it figures al-Shanfarā as an archetypal heroic outlaw, an anti-hero nostalgically imagined to expose the corruption of the society that produced him.
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