Splitting the Moon: A Collection of Islamic Poetry

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Reality television poetry competitions like Prince of Poets and Million's Poet exist to promote classical Arabic poetry and Nabati poetry respectively. Arabic Andalusi poetry in al-Andalus, or Islamic Iberia (Islamic Spain), involved figures such as Ibn Abd Rabbih (the author of the Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd), Ziryab, Ibn Zaydun, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rukuniyya, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Quzman, Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi, and Ibn al-Khatib.

I no longer have any taste for love songs on dwellings which already went down in seas of [too many] odes. These poems and features examine Muslim faith and Islamic culture and address important events, holidays, and occasions such as Ramadan. Andalusi literature flowered for a little longer, but ended with the expulsion of the Arabs in 1492. His life became dedicated to religious worship, and the creation of new ways of expressing his love for the world, for others, and for God.Those early verses as best we can understand them displayed an instinctive sense of rhythm with certain word combinations repeated again and again. Beginning well before the coming of Islam and continuing on into the new millennium, Arab poets have blessed the world with some of the finest verse ever written. Rumi was born to a highly educated father allegedly of noble descent in the early thirteenth century. This volume offers a highly articulate meditation on the experience of faith in an increasingly problematic world.

Court poets like Abu Nuwas also employed satire, lampooning political figures like the vizier Ja'far ibn Yahya. It is also known as "vertical poetry" in reference to its vertical parallel structure of its two parts. Poetry held an important position in pre-Islamic society with the poet or sha'ir filling the role of historian, soothsayer and propagandist. In Islamic Spain, for instance, Muslim poets developed a personal, romantic style that drew from local dialects; and in the area we now know as Iran Arabic-Islamic poetry became Persian-Islamic poetry; the most famous Muslim poets, Rumi and Hafiz, both wrote in Persian. The closer the Arab poets approached to Western poetry, the more anxious they became to look for new media, themes, techniques, metaphors and forms to liberate themselves from conventional poetry.Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. You parents, siblings, country, relatives, and friends are all secondary, and the ultimate love and respect for Allah Almighty is supreme.

I am grateful to the author for providing me with this insight and the delight of discovering a collection of poems which will resonate within me, both emotionally and intellectually, for a long time to come. And, although we cannot be sure, it is also said that during his lifetime he moved in and out of favour with the rulers of the era, becoming at times favoured by the courts and at others being charged with blasphemy.This resulted in poems characterized by strong vocabulary and short ideas but with loosely connected verses. This book - small in size yet great in stature - is destined to become a dog-eared and tattered personal favourite, affording me repeated and prolonged enjoyment and pause for thought for many years to come. The notion of the "ennobling power" of love was developed in the early 11th century by the Persian psychologist and philosopher, Ibn Sina (known as "Avicenna" in English), in his Arabic treatise Risala fi'l-Ishq ( Treatise on Love).