Bashshar ibn Burd was from:

Which of the following properties of a mistress does Arabic love poetry NOT often praise?

Badee, which essentially means “invented,” in Arabic literary history, meant what when applied to Arabic poetry?

During which century did Bashshar ibn Burd live?

Bashshar respected this genre of Arabic poetry, but he also made fun of it:

Which genre earned poets like Bashshar the most money?

Which of the following is true about the theme of Islam in Bashshar’s poetry?

Bashshar ibn Burd’s satires strongly suggest that:

In the episode, we learned that Bashshar’s panegyrics are:

Which of the following is NOT a staple element of a Pre-Islamic qasida?

Bashshar was eventually executed when he told the caliph al-Madhi that al-Madhi had given too much of his power to:

In a poem we looked at, Bashshar talked about his Sasanian Persian forebears being:

Bashshar, like Ovid had before him, wrote some love poetry that was:

The Shu’ubiyya movement was essentially about:

The word for literature in Arabic is al-adab. In addition to meaning “literature,” the word also means: