• Zaki N. (2019)Towards a New Theory of Arabic Prosody (5th edition). Alnagdawi, M., et al. (2013). "Finding Arabic Poem Meter using Context Free Grammar"...
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  • Look up prosody or prosodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prosody may refer to: Prosody (Sanskrit), the study of poetic meters and verse in Sanskrit...
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  • of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody. (Within linguistics, "prosody" is used in a more general sense that includes not only...
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    first Arabic dictionary, Kitāb al-'Ayn (كتاب العين "The Book of the Letter ع"), and is credited with establishing the rules of Arabic prosody. Al-Jahiz...
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  • al-Farāhīdī (711–786 CE) was the first Arab scholar to subject the prosody of Arabic poetry to a detailed phonological study. He failed to produce a coherent...
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    authored the first Arabic dictionary and book of Arabic prosody, and his student Sibawayh authored the first book on theories of Arabic grammar. From the...
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    Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet...
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  • work codifying Arabic grammar. Khalil ibn Ahmad would later write Kitab al-Ayn, the first dictionary of Arabic, along with works on prosody and music, and...
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  • Arabic music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية, romanized: al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres...
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    Islamic art (redirect from Arabic Art)
    Qur'anic verses, or other texts. The main languages, all using Arabic script, are Arabic, always used for Qur'anic verses, Persian in the Persianate world...
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    Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    standard harakat (vowel marks in Arabic script) system, and was instrumental in the early development of ʿArūḍ (study of prosody), musicology and poetic metre...
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    Kufic (redirect from Kufi Arabic)
    The Kufic script (Arabic: الْخط الْكوُفِي; Romanized: ‘Al-khat ‘al-Kūfī) is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script...
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    Arabic epic literature encompasses epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature. Virtually all societies have developed folk tales encompassing tales...
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    One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during...
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    in carvings written in Arabian scripts like Safaitic, Sabaic, and Paleo-Arabic, pre-Islamic poetry, external sources such as Jewish and Greek accounts...
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  • Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (or simply pre-Islamic poetry) refers to the corpus of Arabic poetry composed in pre-Islamic Arabia roughly between 540 and...
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    Roc (mythology) (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    French from Arabic ruḵḵ (Arabic: الرُخّ, romanized: ar-ruḫḫ) and that from Persian ruḵ (Dari pronunciation: [/rux/]). In both languages, Arabic and Persian...
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  • fa'ūlun fa'ūl, using made up words derived from the Arabic verb فعل fʾl 'to do'. (See Arabic prosody.) With some Persian metres, especially those of patterns...
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    Arab culture (redirect from Arabic dress)
    (Iraq), and Sudan. Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers of the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature...
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    Arabesque (redirect from Arabic motif)
    arabesque. In similar fashion, proposed connections between the arabesque and Arabic knowledge of geometry remains a subject of debate; not all art historians...
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  • Aruz (redirect from Turkic prosody)
    The ʿarūż (from Arabic عروض ʿarūḍ), also called ʿarūż prosody, is the Persian, Turkic and Urdu prosody, using the ʿarūż meters. The earliest founder of...
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    Arabization (redirect from Arabicized)
    Arabization or Arabicization (Arabic: تعريب, romanized: taʻrīb) is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Arab society becomes Arab...
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  • Metrical foot (redirect from Foot (prosody))
    York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866121-5. Comprehensive list of feet and colas up to 12 syllables long Prosody Tutorial by H.T. Kirby-Smith...
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    infinite." Against this, Doris Behrens-Abouseif states in her book Beauty in Arabic Culture that a "major difference" between the philosophical thinking of...
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    Tadelakt (category Articles containing Moroccan Arabic-language text)
    Tadelakt (Moroccan Arabic: تدلاكت, romanized: tadla:kt) is a waterproof plaster surface used in Moroccan architecture to make baths, sinks, water vessels...
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    Arabic miniatures (Arabic: ٱلْمُنَمْنَمَات ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة, Al-Munamnamāt al-ʿArabīyyah) are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations...
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  • Etymology of Arab (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    maʿarav) "setting sun" or "evening" (מעריב‎ maʿariv, ערב‎ ʿerev). The direct Arabic cognate of this is غرب ġarb ("west", etc.) rather than عرب ʿarob; however...
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    Hammam (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    A hammam (Arabic: حمّام, romanized: ḥammām, Turkish: hamam), called a Moorish bath (in reference to the Muslim Spain of Al-Andalus) and a Turkish bath...
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    Belly dance (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Belly dance (Arabic: رقص شرقي, romanized: Raqs sharqi, lit. 'oriental dance') is a Middle Eastern dance that originated in Egypt, which features movements...
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    Bazaar (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    bankers and craftsmen who work in that area. The term souk comes from Arabic and refers to marketplaces in the Middle East and North Africa. Although...
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