qūmā

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qūmā

Arabic poetry form

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…of the Arabic language (the qūmā, for example, and the kān wa kān). But the two additional forms that have occasioned the most interest among scholars originated in the Iberian Peninsula: the zajal and the muwashshaḥ. There is a great deal of controversy regarding almost every aspect of these two…
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…of the Arabic language (the qūmā, for example, and the kān wa kān). But the two additional forms that have occasioned the most interest among scholars originated in the Iberian Peninsula: the zajal and the muwashshaḥ. There is a great deal of controversy regarding almost every aspect of these two…
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