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Arabic culture. Arabic poetry ( Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st century ...
The poems. The seven Mu'allaqat, and also the poems appended to them, represent almost every type of ancient Arabian poetry. Tarafa's poem includes a long, anatomically exact description of his camel, common in pre-Islamic poetry. The Mu'allaqat of 'Amr and Harith contain fakhr (boasting) about the splendors of their tribe.
Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35] [12] [13] [36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]
Islamic poetry is a form of spoken word written & recited by Muslims. Islamic poetry, and notably Sufi poetry, has been written in many languages including Urdu and Turkish . Genres of Islamic poetry include Ginans, devotional hymns recited by Ismailis; Ghazal, poetic expression of the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite ...
A Abeer Abiha Adela (name) Afaf Afreen Aisha Aliya Alya (name) Amalia (given name) Amina (disambiguation) Amira (name) Arwa Ashraqat Ashfa Asma (given name) Atikah Aya (given name) Azhar (name) Azra (name) Aziza (name) B Boutheina Bushra Besma C Chaima D Dalal (name) Dalia (given name) Danielle Dana (given name) Dareen Dina E Eliana Esma Eva (name) F Fadwa Farah (name) Farida (given name ...
Leila ( Arabic: ليلى, Persian: ليلى, Hebrew: לילה, Sanskrit: लीला) is a feminine given name primarily found in the Middle East, particularly in Semitic speaking countries and Iran. In the Latin alphabet, the name is commonly spelled in multiple ways, including Leila, Layla, Laylah, Laila, Leyla and Leylah .
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ( Sindh, Pakistan) Shah Ahmad Shafi. Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bangladeshi) Shamsur Rahman (Bangladeshi) Shaheed Quaderi (Bangladeshi) Shahnaz Bashir ( Kashmir) Shaikh Ayaz (Sindh, Pakistan) U Shwe Yoe (a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.)
Sufi literature. Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism . Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature, especially poetry, that was written in Arabic, Persian, Turkic , Sindhi and Urdu. Sufi doctrines and organizations provided more freedom to literature than did the ...