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An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic

An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE VERSE IN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC Abu I-Mahasin 'Abd al-'Az-lz ibn Saraya 1-Hilli t-Ta'i s-Sinbisi, known as Safiyy ad-Din al-Hilli, who was born in Hilla in 677/1278 and died in Baghdad probably in 750/1349, is notable for his ventures in the highways and byways of verse composition. He not only had a solid reputation as a poet in the late classical manner but also initiated the badi-ciyya genre with a poem in praise of the Prophet which illustrated every rhetorical device known in his day; he composed a qasfda sasaniyya which expounds the ways and uses the jargon of the underworld of vagabonds, beggars, and thieves;' and he is the author of one of the earliest and fullest treatises on the so-called "Seven Arts", i.e. non- classical verse compositions,2 mostly in the colloquial. It is to this last work that we turn our attention here. In it, al-Hilli- unlike many of the scholars of his and of later times-repeatedly displays his admiration for the subtleties of which the non-classical genres are capable; yet he is mildly defensive about his involvement with them, for after a long exposition of the features of zajal based on a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Arabic Literature Brill

An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic

Cachia, Pierre
Journal of Arabic Literature , Volume 21 (2): 165 – Jan 1, 1990
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© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0085-2376
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10.1163/157006490X00053
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AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE VERSE IN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC Abu I-Mahasin 'Abd al-'Az-lz ibn Saraya 1-Hilli t-Ta'i s-Sinbisi, known as Safiyy ad-Din al-Hilli, who was born in Hilla in 677/1278 and died in Baghdad probably in 750/1349, is notable for his ventures in the highways and byways of verse composition. He not only had a solid reputation as a poet in the late classical manner but also initiated the badi-ciyya genre with a poem in praise of the Prophet which illustrated every rhetorical device known in his day; he composed a qasfda sasaniyya which expounds the ways and uses the jargon of the underworld of vagabonds, beggars, and thieves;' and he is the author of one of the earliest and fullest treatises on the so-called "Seven Arts", i.e. non- classical verse compositions,2 mostly in the colloquial. It is to this last work that we turn our attention here. In it, al-Hilli- unlike many of the scholars of his and of later times-repeatedly displays his admiration for the subtleties of which the non-classical genres are capable; yet he is mildly defensive about his involvement with them, for after a long exposition of the features of zajal based on a

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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