The Lamiyyat of the poet as-Shanfara is a sa’alik poem, meaning it is:

What characterized the qasida, in terms of rhyme scheme?

Later Arabic literary historians attested that when a poet was born into a family, the family:

The satirical poet Tarafa ibn al-‘Abd got into some trouble with a King named ‘Amr ibn Hind. Ibn Hind ruled over:

The author of the most famous Pre-Islamic Arabic ode, this poet was also an heir to a kingdom, though he never got to rule.

A “reciter” or “teller,” this figure offered public poetry performances in Late Antique Arabia.

The only female poet we studied in this program, this author composed lamentation poems and later converted to Islam.

In the story we heard about the poet al-A’sha and the Quraysh, the Quraysh tribesmen offer al-A’sha 100 camels in exchange for:

Which of the following was NOT a general convention of the early Arabic qasida?

These seven “hanging odes” or “golden odes” are a diverse but revered collection of the earliest extant Arabic poetry.

In addition to describing the Pre-Islamic Arabic ode, this word in contemporary Arabic more simply just means “poem.”

The phrase “ash-shiʿr dīwān al-ʿarab” is often translated as:

One of the Mu’allaqah that we read contains an epic simile involving a:

The qasida very often begins with:

Around the beginning of the 20th century, some prominent literary critics theorized that Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry was: