Poetry

It tells it like it is.

al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, Poetry has always had an important place to play in Arab culture, even from pre-Islamic times, when the status of a tribe would greatly depend on the skills of its tribal poet in composing verse that praised his patrons and satirised all others. While English poetry may be an artistic form …

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The best comebacks

al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh One thing that can be noticed about the poets of old is that they would always seem to come out with the best comebacks in the form of clever couplets. One such example is from Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawanee when he received a letter from Ibn al-Aghlab, the ruler of Majorca, asking …

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