Arabic epic literature encompasses epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature. Virtually all societies have developed folk tales encompassing tales...

Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...

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composed of in 12,000 verses (c. 1080). Taghribat Bani Hilal (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literature Andhra Mahabharatam (Telugu) by Nannayya Ruodlieb (Latin)...

Rings is an example of epic fantasy, though the genre is not limited to the Western tradition, for example: Arabic epic literature includes One Thousand...

character ʿAlī al-Zaybaq Sīrat Banī Hilāl, based on the Banū Hilāl Arabic epic literature Heath 1997. Kruk 2004. Heath, Peter (1997). "Sīra shaʿbiyya". In...

The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ/) is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh...

considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic...

also referred to as Sundiata or Son-Jara; Arabic: ملحمة سوندياتا; French: L'épopée de Soundjata) is an epic poem of the Malinke people that tells the...

Sirat Bani Hilal (سيرة بني هلال Sīra Banī Hilāl) or the al-Hilali epic, is an Arabic epic oral poem that recounts the tale of the journey of the Bedouin...

poem would take on a wider, mystical and religious importance. Arabic epic literature was much less common than poetry, and presumably originates in oral...

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...

"Gordafarid" (Persian: گردآفريد) in the ancient Persian epic poem The Shāhnāmeh, Delhemma in Arabic epic literature, Mulan, Camilla in the Aeneid, Belphoebe and...

this genre of Arabic epic literature in the tradition of an oral storyteller, accompanied by live Arabic music. Ott read Islamic, Arabic and other Oriental...

influenced by Persian and Arabic literature, and used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. The history of the broader Turkic literature spans a period of nearly...

earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in...

Persian epic tradition, such as the portrayal of characters, the relationship between characters, description of time and setting, etc. "Arabic literature -...

Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet...

conducted by any Muslim in a secular context. Arabic literature Arabic epic literature Arabic poetry Arabic architecture is the entire range of architecture...

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authors have adapted the masculine epic tradition to express their own heroic visions. Historically, epic literature has been considered an exclusively...

society". All ancient Greek literature was to some degree oral in nature, and the earliest literature was completely so. Homer's epic poetry, states Michael...

Delhemma or Sirat Delhemma ("Tale of Lady Delhemma") is a popular epic of the Arabic literature regarding the Arab–Byzantine wars of the Umayyad and early Abbasid...

ISBN 85-7139-599-3. Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article: حي بن يقظان Arabic literature Andalusi literature Arabic epic literature The forbidden...

may be psychologically intrinsic to humans. Epic poetry is recognized as the pinnacle of ancient literature. These works are long narrative poems that...

originally oral literatures, which were later written down by either single author or several writers. T'heydinn, a Mauritanian epic ensemble Gassire's...

Leonardo Fibonacci writes Liber Abaci, about the modus Indorum, the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, including the use of zero; it is the first major work in...

Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata were subsequently codified and appeared towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. Classical Sanskrit literature developed...

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in...

ISBN 978-1-57958-281-4. The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC, when the Sumerians started to write down their long epic poems. "Why Has No One Ever...