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Maqama logo #10101) Arabic poetry form 2) Poetic form
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Maqama

Maqama logo #21000 Maqāma (literally `assemblies`) are an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre of rhymed prose with intervals of poetry in which rhetorical extravagance is conspicuous. The 10th-century author Badī` al-Zaman al-Hamadhāni is said to have invented the form, which was extended by al-Hariri of Basra in the next century. Both authors` maq...
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Maqama

Maqama logo #22385Picaresque Arabic stories in rhymed prose. The two most famous writers in this genre include Abu al-
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