Arabic poetry
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 123 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5088-1721-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arabic poetry (Arabic: ??????? ???????? / ALA-LC: ash-shi‘ru al-‘Arabiyu) is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of `Arud. Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" (????). The measuring unit of the "seas" is known as "taf`ila" (??????) with every sea containing a certain number of taf’ilas that the poet has to observe in every verse (bayt ???) of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one...