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An Introduction to Arab Poetics

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Sajʿ was the first form of poetic orality, that is poetic speech following a single pattern.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Song was a body whose joints were metre, rhythm and melody.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    In later times poets would imitate the costumes of their pre-Islamic forbears and so affirm the unbroken link between past and present.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Some poets dressed up to perform, as if the occasion were a celebration like a wedding or a feast.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    like the poetess al-Khansā’ (sixth–seventh century) who, it is said, rocked and swayed, and looked down at herself in a trance. Thus in orality there is a ‘meeting in action’ of voice, body, word and gesture.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Kitāb al-Aghānī (The Book of Songs) by Abu’l-Faraj al-Iṣfaḥānī (897–967), which consists of twenty-one volumes and took fifty years to compile, is the most striking proof that poetry in the pre-Islamic period was synonymous with recitation and song.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The critic Ibn Rashīq maintains that song was at the origin of rhyme and metre,2 and that ‘Metres are the foundations of melodies, and poems set the standards for stringed instruments.’3
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    This explains the significance of the claim that the Arabs ‘measure poetry by song’ or that ‘Song is the measure for poetry.’1
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    organic link that existed between poetry and song in the pre-Islamic period.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    famous verse:
    Sing in every poem you compose
    That song is poetry’s domain.
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