The ʿAyniyyah of Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī: The Achievement of a Classical Arabic Allegorical Form.

This paper aims to examine the renowned Early Islamic elegy, the ʿAyniyyah of the Mukhaḍram poet Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī in two respects. First, it examines the poem as an entirely unconventional example of a Classical Arabic elegiac poem (rithāʾ) in terms of its thematic structure of introductory la...

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Published in:	Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 51; no. 3/4; pp. 273 - 325
Main Author:	Stetkevych, Jaroslav
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2020
Subjects:	Achievement Elegiac poetry Poetry (Literary form) Poets Transmission of sound New words Allegory
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