tardiyyah

…other categories, khamriyyāt (wine poems), ṭardiyyāt (hunt poems), zuhdiyyāt (ascetic poems), and ghazal (love poems).

The many hunt scenes to be found in the earliest Arabic poetry—one of the most notable is in Imruʾ al-Qays’s muʿallaqah—illustrate the love of this sport among the Arabs of the desert, one that continues to the present day. As the pre-Islamic qaṣīdah…