Poetic genres of the Arabic and Persian literary worlds, including the Arabic rithaa elegy and the Persian prison poetry called habsiyat. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes a genre of Arabic or Persian poetry. The group sits within the World Traditional Verse Forms subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
Arabic and Persian Poetic Genres
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Wikipedia: Persian riddles
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The Persian term for riddle is
Fakhr - Wikipedia
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It is also used as a technical term in Arabic literature.
Wikipedia: Ritha
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Rithā’ (Arabic: رثاء) is a genre of Arabic poetry corresponding to elegy or lament.
Habsiyat, Wikipedia
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Habsiyat (Persian: حبسیات) is a genre in Persian literature that deals with imprisonment.
Arabic riddles - Wikipedia
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Riddles are historically a significant genre of Arabic literature.
Wikipedia: Shahr Ashob
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is a genre that becomes prominent in Urdu poetry in South Asia with its roots in classical Persian and Urdu poetic lamentations.
Wasf - Wikipedia
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Probably deriving from the descriptions of the abandoned campsite and beloved in the ancient qasida's erotic prelude, and of animals and landscape in the journey section, or rahiil, it evolved into a genre of its own in Abbasid Baghdad and later in Spain.
Diwan (poetry), Wikipedia
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Originating in Persian literature, the idea spread to the Arab, Turkic and Indic worlds
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