Luzūmiyyāt

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Luzūmiyyāt is a celebrated collection of philosophically charged, linguistically intricate Arabic poems by the 11th-century poet Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, noted for its skepticism and complex rhyme constraints.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic poetry
poetry collection
alsoKnownAs Luzūm mā lā yalzam NERFINISHED
Luzūm mā lā yalzamuhu NERFINISHED
associatedWith freethought in Islam
zuhd (ascetic) tradition
author Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī NERFINISHED
circulation manuscript tradition
countryOfOrigin Islamic world
dateWritten 11th century
genre didactic poetry
philosophical poetry
hasForm qaṣīda
short philosophical poems
hasPerspective anti-dogmatic
rationalist
skeptical
hasStyle allusive
aphoristic
dense imagery
hasTheme asceticism
critique of dogma
ethics
human suffering
mortality
reason and rationalism
vanity of worldly life
influenced later Arabic skeptical literature
influencedBy Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s rationalism
language Arabic
literaryForm poetry
literaryPeriod Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED
metricalFeature additional consonantal constraints
strict rhyme scheme
notableFor complex rhyme constraints
linguistic intricacy
pessimistic outlook
philosophical content
religious skepticism
skeptical themes
partOf classical Arabic literature
placeOfComposition Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān NERFINISHED
studiedIn Arabic literary criticism
Islamic intellectual history
comparative literature
titleLanguage Arabic
workOf Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī NERFINISHED

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Al-Ma'arri notableWork Luzūmiyyāt
this entity surface form: Luzum ma la yalzam