• Rithāal-Andalus (Arabic: رثاء الأندلس, variously translated as "An Elegy to al-Andalus" or "Elegy for the fall of al-Andalus"), also known as Lament...
    11 KB (766 words) - 13:55, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rithā'
    men, however, resembled the eulogistic qaṣīdah in general pattern'. Rithāal-Andalus Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic...
    4 KB (488 words) - 10:01, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Andalus
    al-Ándalus; Basque: al-Andalus; Berber: ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, romanized: Andalus; Catalan: al-Àndalus; Galician: al-Andalus; Occitan: Al Andalús; Portuguese: al-Ândalus;...
    129 KB (15,168 words) - 12:26, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuniyya
    Qayyim, the Nuniyya of Imam al-Qahtani al-Andalusi, the Nuniyya of Abu al-Fath al-Busti, and "Ritha' al-Andalus" by Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi. Farrin, Raymond...
    1 KB (119 words) - 03:04, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seville
    Seville (redirect from Hims al-Andalus)
    referred to for example in the encyclopedia of Yaqut al-Hamawi or in Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi's Ritha' al-Andalus. The city is sometimes referred to as the "Pearl...
    153 KB (15,334 words) - 01:51, 23 November 2024
  • literature of al-Andalus, also known as Andalusi literature (Arabic: الأدب الأندلسي, al-adab al-andalusī), was produced in al-Andalus, or Islamic Iberia...
    60 KB (6,625 words) - 15:46, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moorish architecture
    architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia...
    181 KB (20,631 words) - 06:44, 21 November 2024
  • the later rithā’ poetry. As an outstanding poet and female figure in the history of Arabic literature, the position of al-Khansā’ is unique. Al-Khansa’s...
    11 KB (1,097 words) - 16:06, 23 October 2024
  • or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region and the Moors. It then spread and...
    21 KB (2,620 words) - 21:25, 21 October 2024
  • ). Música y Poesía del Sur de al-Andalus. 1995. ISBN 8477823359 Fernández Manzano, Reynaldo.: La música de al-Andalus en la cultura medieval, imágenes...
    50 KB (5,795 words) - 13:14, 22 November 2024
  • Ta’if, and Medina. Women's poetry is particularly well attested from Al-Andalus. According to Samer M. Ali, In retrospect we can discern four overlapping...
    19 KB (2,349 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2024
  • 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...
    10 KB (1,075 words) - 05:56, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hammam
    hammams were historically found across the Middle East, North Africa, al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia, i.e. Spain and Portugal), Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent...
    103 KB (11,806 words) - 01:47, 19 November 2024
  • Kharja (category Culture of al-Andalus)
    the final refrain of a muwashshah (مُوَشَّح 'girdle'), a lyric genre of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim control) written in Arabic or Andalusi...
    17 KB (2,052 words) - 04:45, 24 October 2024
  • al-Dhubiyānī, Antara Ibn Shaddad, al-A'sha al-Akbar, and Labīd ibn Rabī'ah. Al-Khansa stood out in her poetry of rithā' or elegy. al-Hutay'a [ar] was prominent...
    115 KB (14,409 words) - 18:42, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Riad (architecture)
    historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus. Its classic form is a rectangular garden divided into four quadrants...
    19 KB (2,058 words) - 22:02, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Nuwas
    poetry) and Tardiyya (hunting poetry). Ibn Quzman, who was writing in Al-Andalus in the 12th century, admired him deeply and has been compared to him....
    32 KB (3,681 words) - 17:11, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muqarnas
    style and technique is sometimes made between muqarnas in the Maghreb and al-Andalus (the far western regions of the Islamic world) and muqarnas in the rest...
    44 KB (4,815 words) - 01:56, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arabization
    Iberia (al-Andalus) incorporated elements of Arabic language and culture. The Mozarabs were Iberian Christians who lived under Arab Islamic rule in Al-Andalus...
    78 KB (8,966 words) - 21:49, 26 October 2024
  • rise of poetry in Al-Andalus occurred in dialogue with the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. Most Jewish writers in al-Andalus—while incorporating...
    50 KB (6,434 words) - 08:05, 22 October 2024
  • Muwashshah (category Culture of al-Andalus)
    the linguistic landscape of al-Andalus. The earliest known source on the muwashshah is ibn Bassam’s Dhakhīra fī mahāsin ahl al-Jazīra. He ascribes the invention...
    14 KB (1,716 words) - 09:21, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belly dance
    Belly dance (redirect from Raks al Sharqi)
    style. These dancers came to be known as Al-Andalusian dancers. It is theorized that the fusion of the Al-Andalus style with the dances of the Romani people...
    44 KB (4,947 words) - 12:17, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maghrebi script
    family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus (Iberia), and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel). Maghrebi script...
    43 KB (3,599 words) - 23:26, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alcázar
    caliph Abd al-Rahman I fled the Middle East, traveling west for five years before finally settling in what would become known as al-Andalus after the Islamic...
    26 KB (3,123 words) - 15:09, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fatimid architecture
    of Caliphal Legitimacy in Al-Andalus. Harvard CMES. ISBN 978-0-932885-24-1. Saifuddin, Ja'far us Sadiq Mufaddal (2002). Al Juyushi: A Vision of the Fatemiyeen...
    72 KB (9,191 words) - 20:55, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamic garden
    racetrack and hunting preserves. The terraced gardens of Madinat al-Zahra in al-Andalus, built in the 10th century under Abd ar-Rahman III and ruined in...
    43 KB (5,400 words) - 16:16, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kufic
    Kufi Arabic Changa Reem Kufi Qahiri Cairo Almarai Mada Kufam Windows: Andalus iOS: Diwan Kufi Sample text from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
    25 KB (2,828 words) - 06:28, 4 November 2024
  • The dangers of the one in the lament of the Majid” (Khatarat Alwajid Fi Ritha' Almajid) The warning of the excuse's attack. (Rujuj Al'Iindhar Bihujum...
    6 KB (868 words) - 01:21, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for One Thousand and One Nights
    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)...
    107 KB (13,203 words) - 17:59, 4 November 2024
  • died in Ceuta, composed his qasida nuniyya Elegy for al-Andalus in the year 1267; this poem is a rithā', or lament, mourning the fall of most major Andalusi...
    62 KB (5,968 words) - 06:10, 11 November 2024