Arabic Poetry

The beauty of Arabic language can be seen in Poetry, Poetry has this kind of ability to let the reader feels he is living the situation that the poet is trying to describe.

In the Arabic culture, Poetry can be categorized depending on the era they were written:
before-Islam named "Jahiliya" and after-Islam; poetry in this era can also be classified according to the rulers of the Islamic empire and there is of course what is written nowadays: modern poetry and what I call "Bedouins" poetry actually named "Nabati"


I don't want to go very deeply into explaining Arabic poetry history because it will be very confusing and the most important thing I am not an expert I just know few things from here and there.

my favorites are the poetry  that belong to before-Islam and after-Islam (to a certain point), modern poetry are not my interest although I like some of the "Nabati" poems and they are written using Bedouins' dialects which is little difficult for me to understand!

I prefer love poetry - in the Arabic language they are literally named "flirting poetry"-, because in the Arabic culture when a man loves a woman he writes a poem about her describing her beauty thus using the poetry to expose and show his feelings towards her.

The Arabic poetry has a structure, It consist of phrases and each phrase consists of two halves - this structure is applicable to almost all types with some exception in the modern poetry-.

Each main phrase is called "Bayt" which means house in Englishز
and for the two halves, each half is called "Shatr".

so for the upcoming posts -related to poetry-, I will be posting a part of my favorite poems, giving a brief about the poet and then explaining the phrases themselves, 

Hope you like it :)