Al-Wakwak (Arabic: ٱلْوَاق وَاق al-Wāq Wāq), also spelled al-Waq Waq, Wak al-Wak or just Wak Wak, is the name of an island, or possibly more than one island...
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Practice. New World Library. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-57731-987-0. Yang, Lihui; et al. (2005). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press...
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Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (section Imru' al-Qais)
roughly between 540 and 620 AD. Traditional Arabic literature called it al-shiʿr al-Jāhilī, "poetry from the Jahiliyyah". Surviving works largely originate...
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Mufaddaliyat (redirect from Al-Mufaddaliyat)
The Mufaddaliyyat (Arabic: المفضليات / ALA-LC: al-Mufaḍḍaliyāt), meaning "The Examination of al-Mufaḍḍal", is an anthology of pre-Islamic Arabic poems...
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attributed to the 10th-century Arabic writer Abū al-Farāj al-Isfahānī (also known as al-Isbahānī). Abū al-Farāj claimed to have taken 50 years in writing...
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Encyclopedia of Pleasure (redirect from Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdhah)
The Encyclopedia of Pleasure or Jawāmiʿ al-Ladhdhah (Arabic: جوامع اللّذّة) is the earliest existent Arabic erotic work, written in the 10th century by...
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bin Abdullah bin Asim bin Thabit al-Ansari (variant:ʿAbd Allāh bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿĀṣim bin Ṯẖābit Al-Anṣārī) (Arabic: عبدالله بن محمد بن...
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The Perfumed Garden (redirect from Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi)
الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi...
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Nawāḍir ʾal-ʾAyk fī Maʿrifat al-Nayk (Arabic: نواضر الأيك في معرفة النيك, "The Thicket's Blooms of Gracefulness on the Art of the Fleshly Embrace") is...
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Mu'allaqat (redirect from Al-Mu'allaqat)
compiler of the poems may have been Hammad al-Rawiya (8th century). The grammarian Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nahhas (d. 949 CE) says in his commentary on...
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Al-Qatt Al-Asiri (also called nagash painting or majlis painting), is a style of Arabic art, typically painted by women in the entrance to a home. It originated...
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Moorish architecture (redirect from Architecture of Al-Andalus)
Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia...
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al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (Arabic: مقامات بديع الزمان الهمذاني), are an Arabic collection of stories from the 9th century, written by Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani...
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Fatimid architecture (section Sabra al-Mansuriyya)
constructions were undertaken during the reigns of al-Mui'zz (r. 953–975) Al-Aziz Billah (r. 975–996) and al-Hakim (r. 996–1021). The Fatimid caliphs competed...
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Kitab al-I'tibar (Arabic: كتاب الاعتبار, The Book of Learning by Example) is the autobiography of Usama ibn-Munqidh, an Arab Syrian diplomat, soldier of...
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Mahmud al-Wasiti (Arabic: يحيى بن محمود الواسطي) was a 13th-century Iraqi-Arab painter and calligrapher, noted for being the scribe and illustrator of al-Hariri's...
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Andalusi classical music (redirect from Musiqa al-Ala)
al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Ibn Khafaja, al-Shushtari, and Ibn al-Khatib. Andalusi music was allegedly born in the Emirate of Cordoba (Al-Andalus) in the 9th century...
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Abu Nuwas (redirect from Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hāni' al-Ḥakamī)
Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī (أَبُو عَلِي اَلْحَسَنْ بْنْ هَانِئْ بْنْ عَبْدِ اَلْأَوَّلْ...
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directed to various gods and goddesses, including Hubal and the goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā, and Manāt, at local shrines and temples such as the Kaaba in Mecca...
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headings are: Al-Ḥamāsah "Valour" Al-Marāthī, "Elegies"; Al-Adab, "Proper conduct"; An-Nasīb, "Love"; Al-Hijāʿ, "Invective"; Al-Adyāf wa al-madīḥ, "Hospitality...
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Arabic music (section Al-Andalus)
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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The literature of al-Andalus, also known as Andalusi literature (Arabic: الأدب الأندلسي, al-adab al-andalusī), was produced in al-Andalus, or Islamic...
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roc. The story collection One Thousand and One Nights includes tales "Abd al-Rahman the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh" and "Sinbad the Sailor", both of...
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Belly dance (redirect from Raks al Sharqi)
associated with Arabic music that is modern classical (known as "al-jadid"). In the 1870s, Shafiqa al-Qibtiyya was the most famous bellydancer in all of Egypt's...
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Hammam (section Maghreb and al-Andalus)
Turkish: hamam), called a Moorish bath (in reference to the Muslim Spain of Al-Andalus) and a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place...
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Arab Muslims (Arabic: ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ al-Muslimiyyūn al-ʿArab) are the largest subdivision of the Arab people and the largest ethnic group among...
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Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk...
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wa-laylah: bi-al-ʻāmmīyah al-Miṣrīyah: layālī al-ḥubb wa-al-ʻishq, ed. by Hishām ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz and ʻĀdil ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (Cairo: Dār al-Khayyāl, 1997)...
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historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus. Its classic form is a rectangular garden divided into four quadrants...
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