Muslim Spain Flashcards
————— was the single most
famous poet in the history of al-Andalus and he
is also considered to be one of its most original.
Ibn Quzman
Ibn Quzman was born and died in ———- during the
reign of the ————, but seemingly spent
most of his time in——–.
Cordoba
Al Moravids
Seville
Ibn Quzman has earned his
fame by his ——–.
zajals
Characteristic of the zajal or
zejel is its ———- language, as well as a
typical ——— scheme
colloquial
rhyming
Andalusia was first in giving recognition to
two non-classical verse forms: ——— and ———
the muwashshaḥ
the zajal.
——— is a traditional form of oral strophic poetry
in a colloquial dialect.
zajal
The origin of zajal is ————–
Pre Islamic Arabia
———– was famous of
zajal at that time
al-Khansa’
Zajal is semi——— and
semi—— and is often performed in the format
of a debate between ——— (poets who
improvise the zajal).
improvised
sung
zajjalin
Zajal is usually accompanied
by percussive ———- ———- and a chorus
of — who sing parts of the verse.
musical instruments
men
The muwashshah is written in ———- Arabic, and
its subjects are those of Classical Arabic poetry : ——-, ——-, ——— ——-
Classical
love
wine
court figures
Muwashshah sharply differs in form,
however, from classical poetry, in which each verse
is divided into —– metric halves and a —— rhyme
recurs at the end of each verse.
two
single
The muwashshah is
usually divided into —— strophes, or stanzas.
five
Muwashshah is
usually written in ———- Arabic or in the
———- ———- dialect
vernacular
Spanish Mozarabic
Muwashshah is normally rendered
in the voice of a —– and expresses her longing for
her——— ——-
girl
absent lover
Among the muwashshah practitioners are : ———– and ———–
al- Tutaili
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib
Arabic folk —– are original and individual, with marked
variations in ——- and ——-, although keeping
the general epic features common to all.
epics
theme
resolutions
and —— are the main topics of epic, but there are also —– and
great ———— and —————
adventure love wars feats of courage moral integrity
Epics are still narrated in the
cafés of some old Arabian cities, such as ———–, and
in villages and in the less-modernized habitats of the
——– world
Damascus
arabic
Epics are also found in many of the libraries
housing ——– manuscripts
oriental
Sira is divided into: ———- and ———–
entire tribe :Sirat Banu Hilal
individual: Sirat Antara
The most famous of these folk epics ( or romances) are:
The Epic of ʿ Antara ibn Shaddad
The famous Hilali epic, Sirat Bani Hilal,
The Epic of Princess Dhat al-Himma
The Epic of al- Dhahir Baibars:
The Epic of al- Dhahir Baibars: long
———– folkloric epic poem that narrates the life and heroic
achievements of the Mamluk Sultan ————– .
egyptian
al-Zahir Baibars .
Which folk epic offers a typology of
the warrior woman in the Arabic epic.
The Epic of Princess Dhat al-Himma
Which folk epic has around 4000 pages?
The Epic of ʿ Antara ibn Shaddad
The famous Hilali epic, Sirat Bani Hilal, which has two
major renditions: a prose rendition of about —–
pages, and a poetry rendition collected and recorded by
the poet ʿ—————– and constituting a
quarter of a million poetry quartets
2000
Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi
ʿAntara, a ——
poet of note in the ———— period who was
the son of a notable Arab from the ————- tribe and an ————- slave mother and
who was himself regarded as a slave by his
father.
black
pre islamic
southern ʿAbs
Abyssinian
The story is dramatic enough in its own
right, with ʿAntara’s desperate love for ——-,
his —— cousin, and his feats of courage in
defense of the tribe, which procured his
——— and ——— to his love.
Abla
white
emancipation
marriage
And unique in pre-modern Arabic literature is a
philosophical romance by ——–
Ibn Ṭufayl
Ibn Tufayl who took a folk story about a child brought up by a
gazelle on a desert island and developed it into a well sustained fictional narrative in which the eponymous
hero, —————–,
“Alive son of Awake,” gradually
discovers the ultimate truth, entirely by the exercise of
his natural ——–, and eventually establishes that his
conclusion is identical with ——– revelation as
understood not by the common people but by the elite.
Ḥayy b. Yaqẓān
faculties
Qurʾānic
Reading excerpts from the philosophical novel of Ibn Tufayl will prepare you for
understanding an overarching theme in Islamic philosophy
which is the relation between ——- and ———.
reason
revelation
