Arabic poetry

1. Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 2 endorsed 2 citations · 10 passages

   the author's introduction 8 passages anchored here · ch. 2 2 passages anchored here

   Four separate verse citations are introduced by attribution to a poet and stand as the closing authority of their arguments.

   for the promise is a due owed by you, while the threat is a due owed to you by another, so that in it you retain your choice — and for that reason breaking a promise is not permissible, though breaking a threat is.

2. Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah Aḥmad ibn Khalīl al-Khuwayyī 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 9

   كثيرا من الشعر names poetry as a recognised body of material to be mastered, with a deliberate wordplay.

   Then he had me memorise al-Lumaʻ and Nuzhat al-ṭarf and the Maqāmāt, and much poetry (shiʻr), before the season of the sprouting of hair (shaʻr).

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