Explore: Qasidas

an extemporized quality. The Hejaz itself attests to no tripartite qasidas. Qasidas were introduced to Dhaka, and later the rest of Bengal, during the

Qasīdat al-Burda (Arabic: قصيدة البردة, "Ode of the Mantle"), or al-Burda for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for Muhammad composed by the

Borama has produced a notable body of literature mainly consisting of qasidas. The Borama or Gadabuursi Script was devised in 1933 by Sheikh Abdurahman

anonymous commentary from the Kūfī school.: iii  Thirty largely complete qaṣīdas attributed to ibn al-Abraṣ are known, alongside seventeen framentary poems

the qasida, a much older pre-Islamic Arabic poetic form. Qaṣīdas were typically much longer poems, with up to 100 couplets. Thematically, qaṣīdas did

from other cultures have enriched Indonesian music, such as the gambus and qasida from the Middle East, keroncong from Portugal, and dangdut (one of the country's

of the three on the ground that among his poems there were ten flawless qasidas (Arabic poetic odes), and ten more nearly so, and that this could not be

the most common form of a qasida is in the form of praise of Muhammad, along with people related to him. These religious qasidas emphasize the power and

ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs. His fame most securely rests upon the qasidas collected in his Divān, and his autobiographical travelogue Tohfat al-ʿErāqayn

seem to have supported the rise of the Mongol Empire. He composed two qasidas (odes)—one in Arabic and the other in Persian—which grieved over the collapse