Arabic poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
قصیدة دعبل خزاعي Qaṣīdat Di'bil Khuzā'ī, undated copy (original text featured in a composition from the 10th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 43
Scope and Contents
This qaṣīdah, which consists of 133 lines in praise of the descendants of the Prophet, was copied from the history of al-Ṭabarī. It is stated that Abū al-Salṭ al-Harawī was probably the author of the qaṣīdah, who had dictated it to al-Ṭabarī.
Dates:
undated copy (original text featured in a composition from the 10th cent. C.E.)
کتاب منتخبات من الکتب المختلفة العربية Kitāb muntakhabāt min al-kutub al-mukhtalifah al-‘Arabiyyah, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 526
Scope and Contents
Selections of Arabic Writings. The content is as follows (according to the pagination in the Ms):1) A selection of stories and histories (p. 1-145)2) A selection of chapters from the Qurʼān (p. 146-212)3) The first Mu‘allaqah of the famous pre-Islamic Arabic poems al-Mu‘allaqāt al-Sab‘ li Imruʼ al-Qays (p. 213-226)4) A collection of Aghāni, songs or poems...
Dates:
undated
مجنون لیلی العامریه Majnūn Laylá al-'Āmiriyyah, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 57
Scope and Contents
A much celebrated love story, it is in prose, probably written by Ḥabīb b. Rabboh; the numerous verses with which the composition is interspersed are attributed to Majnūn himself (as the story's eponymous hero is named after having fallen in love with Laylá).
Dates:
undated
نفحة الیمن Nafḥat al-Yaman, 1226 A.H., 1811 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 55
Scope and Contents
An Arabic miscellany of compositions in prose and verse, selected or original, by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamani al-Shirwānī, who compiled it in Calcutta at the desire of Matthew M. Lumsden, and died there, 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.).
Dates:
1226 A.H.; 1811 C.E.