Didactic poetry, Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Didactic poetry, Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Gelder, Geert Jan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061419
Doc. NO	:	ALei1816
Main Entry	:	van Gelder, Geert Jan
Title & Author	:	Didactic poetry, Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Gelder, Geert Jan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(815 words)
Abstract	:	Arabic didactic poetry , taken in a broad sense, intends to instil morals or impart information. By this definition much of Arabic poetry is didactic, such as the gnomic verse found at the end of the Muʿallaqa poem of the pre-Islamic poet Zuhayr b. Abī Sulmā and the aphorisms that punctuate countless qaṣīda s and epigrams throughout the centuries. The dīwān of al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/965) especially has always been a beloved treasure trove of quotable wisdom, in the form of one-line maxims. In the terminology of the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1816.pdf