â â  “macaronic” literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and “macaronic verse”, in arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are composed of words which include dotted letters (mo’jamah) whereas the words in another hemstitch or stitch possess letters with no dots (mohmalah...

The Cairo Genizah has shown its importance as a fruitful source for the study of both liturgical and secular Hebrew poetry. Yet, although also contains hundreds poetry fragments written in Arabic language, Judaeo-Arabic hitherto received inadequate attention research literature. This article explores some Genizah's poems script, which are held at Taylor-Schechter Collections Cambridge Universit...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...

the critics and the literary figures believe that abu al atahiyeh (213 or 209-230) is the leading poet of arabic ascetic poetry, and this poetry is embossed on the temple of arabic ascetic poetry. his innovation and creativity on ascetic poetry have made the researchers draw various interpretations. some believe that he has been inspired by hassan basri, and some claim that he has cherished the...

navab is a dissident poet and political thinker. he believes that he has responsibilities in relation to the arab community and the arabic governments. the present study is an attempt to study rebellion poem in arabic contemporary literature, assuming that he is one of the political opposition arab governments, so in this article we will study poetry which was written in the space of censorship...

Thomas Bauer seems very much intent on discrediting my chapter on Mamluk and Ottoman poetry (in the Post-Classical Period volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, edited by Roger Allen and D. S. Richards and published in 2006), which apparently contradicts the premises and ideas he himself had already put forward about this long period, one that happens to be his chosen area of spe...

يعدُّ هذا البحث دراسة دلالية في الشعر العربي القديم بهدف رصد التغيرات التي طرأت على الألفاظ تناولها الشعراء شعرهم، وقد اتبع المنهج الاستقرائي/ الاستنباطي بيان حركة هذه وأصولها واستعمالاتها، ثمّ استنباط ما طرأ عليها من تغيير دلالي إمّا بتعميم دلالتها لتشمل عددًا أكبر المدلولات والمعاني، وإمّا بتضيق لتقتصر معنى واحد المعاني الكثيرة دُوِّنت أصل وضعها، أن ترتقي لتأخذَ أسمى المعنى الذي وُضِعت له، العكس بأنَّ تنحّط...