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Zajal (Arabic: زجل) is a
traditional form of oral
strophic poetry declaimed in a
colloquial dialect. The
earliest recorded zajal poet was Ibn
Quzman of...
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traditional music of
Jordan has a long history.
Rural zajal songs, with
improvised poetry pla**** with a mijwiz, tablah, arghul, oud, rabab, and reed...
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importance in the
Arabian Peninsula, and mock
battles in
poetry or
zajal would stand in lieu of real wars. 'Ukaz, a
market town not far from Mecca...
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Arabic with the
exception of the
concluding couplet, or the kharja, and
zajal: a
simpler form
entirely in
vernacular Arabic. The
earliest known muwaššaḥs...
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Arabic art of
poetry by
listening to oral
presentations in the form
known as
zajal. In 1919, the year of the
first Egyptian revolution, he
began to publish...
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maternal grandfather is a
Palestinian poet and
singer who used to
perform zajal at
Palestinian weddings. Her
paternal grandmother is a
pianist from Chile...
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Andalusi musical tradition into four types: nashīd, ṣawt, muwashshaḥ, and
zajal. A nashīd was
classical monorhyme poem
consisting of
istihlal (استهلال -...
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varieties of
Arabic of its time in its use for
literary purposes,
especially in
zajal poetry and
proverbs and aphorisms. In 1502, the
Muslims of
Granada were...
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little sheikh from the land of
Meknes (Arabic شويخ من أرض مكناس) is a
zajal by the Sufi poet Al-Shushtari (1212-1269). The poem is
often taken as evidence...
- and
importance in the
Arabian Peninsula, and mock
battles in
poetry or
zajal would stand in lieu of real wars. 'Ukaz, a
market town not far from Mecca...