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Zajal (Arabic: زجل) is a
traditional form of oral
strophic poetry declaimed in a
colloquial dialect. The
earliest recorded zajal poet was the poet Ibn...
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little sheikh from the land of
Meknes (Arabic شويخ من أرض مكناس) is a
zajal by the Sufi poet Al-Shushtari (1212-1269). The poem is
often taken as evidence...
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importance in the
Arabian peninsula, and mock
battles in
poetry or
zajal would stand in lieu of real wars. 'Ukaz, a
market town not far from Mecca...
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classical and MSA. In
around the 11th and 12th
centuries in al-Andalus, the
zajal and
muwashah poetry forms developed in the
dialectical Arabic of Cordoba...
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literature of al-Andalus, and
shared important poetic and
literary forms such as
zajal, the muwashshah, and the maqama.
Islamic literature, such as
Quranic exegeses...
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varieties of
Arabic of its time in its use for
literary purposes,
especially in
zajal poetry and
proverbs and aphorisms. In 1502, the
Muslims of
Granada were...
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Fijiri Gnawa (North Africa) Liwa
Mawwal Mezwed Samri Sawt
Shaabi Zajal Dance Ardah Belly dance Dabke Deheyeh Guedra Hagallah Khaleegy Liwa Mizmar...
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maternal grandfather is a
Palestinian poet and
singer who used to
perform zajal at
Palestinian weddings. Her
paternal grandmother is a
pianist from Chile...
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Nawbat al-Māya [ar] (نوبة الماية). It is a
piece of
zajal poetry,
meaning that it is in
Andalusi dialectical Arabic rather than Standard...
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Arabic with the
exception of the
concluding couplet, or the kharja, and
zajal: a
simpler form
entirely in
vernacular Arabic. The
earliest known muwaššaḥs...
