Arabic literature

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Arabic literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Arabic language, encompassing poetry, prose, religious and philosophical texts, and modern literary forms from pre-Islamic times to the present.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Arabic literature canonical 3
Andalusian literature 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf body of written works ⓘ
cultural tradition ⓘ
literature ⓘ
hasCentralTheme colonialism ⓘ
exile ⓘ
heroism ⓘ
identity ⓘ
love ⓘ
modernity ⓘ
mysticism ⓘ
politics ⓘ
religion ⓘ
social justice ⓘ
hasForm autobiography ⓘ
criticism ⓘ
drama ⓘ
essay ⓘ
literary theory ⓘ
memoir ⓘ
novel ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
philosophical text ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
prose ⓘ
religious text ⓘ
short story ⓘ
travel writing ⓘ
hasGenre Sufi poetry ⓘ
adab ⓘ
biographical dictionary ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ
didactic literature ⓘ
epic ⓘ
epistle ⓘ
folk tale ⓘ
ghazal ⓘ
historical chronicle ⓘ
maqama ⓘ
muwashshah ⓘ
political novel ⓘ
prison literature ⓘ
qasida ⓘ
romantic novel ⓘ
social realist novel ⓘ
war literature ⓘ
zajal ⓘ
hasGeographicScope Andalusia ⓘ
Arabian Peninsula ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Middle East ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
hasImportantMovement Mahjar movement ⓘ
Nahda ⓘ
free verse movement ⓘ
modernist poetry movement ⓘ
hasInfluenced Andalusian literature ⓘ
European medieval literature ⓘ
Persian literature ⓘ
Turkish literature ⓘ
Urdu literature ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor Abdelrahman Munif ⓘ
Abu Nuwas ⓘ
Adonis ⓘ
al‑Ghazali ⓘ
surface form: Al-Ghazali

Al-Hariri of Basra ⓘ
Al-Jahiz ⓘ
Al-Ma'arri ⓘ
Al-Mutanabbi ⓘ
Alaa Al Aswany ⓘ
Antarah ibn Shaddad ⓘ
Ghassan Kanafani ⓘ
Hanan al-Shaykh ⓘ
Ibn Arabi ⓘ
Ibn Hazm ⓘ
Ibn Khaldun ⓘ
Averroes ⓘ
surface form: Ibn Rushd

Ibn al-Muqaffa' ⓘ
Imru' al-Qais ⓘ
Jibran Khalil Jibran ⓘ
Mahmoud Darwish ⓘ
Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ
Nizar Qabbani ⓘ
Rabia al‑Adawiyya ⓘ
surface form: Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

Sonallah Ibrahim ⓘ
Taha Hussein ⓘ
Tayeb Salih ⓘ
hasNotableAwardRecipient Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ
hasNotableWork Gate of the Sun ⓘ
Memory for Forgetfulness ⓘ
Men in the Sun ⓘ
Mu'allaqat ⓘ
The Arabian Nights ⓘ
surface form: One Thousand and One Nights

Palace Walk ⓘ
Season of Migration to the North ⓘ
The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ
The Deliverance from Error ⓘ
The Epistle of Forgiveness ⓘ
The Golden Meadows ⓘ
The Incoherence of the Incoherence ⓘ
The Incoherence of the Philosophers ⓘ
The Ring of the Dove ⓘ
hasPeriod Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
surface form: Abbasid period

Islamic Spain ⓘ
surface form: Andalusian period

Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
surface form: Mamluk period

Nahda ⓘ
Ottoman period ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
surface form: Umayyad period

contemporary Arabic literature ⓘ
early Islamic literature ⓘ
modern Arabic literature ⓘ
pre-Islamic literature ⓘ
hasTemporalRange pre-Islamic era to present ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script
isInfluencedBy Greek philosophy ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Persian literature ⓘ
Quran ⓘ
Syriac literature ⓘ
pre-Islamic Arabian culture ⓘ
originatesFrom Arab world ⓘ
received Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
usesLanguage Arabic language ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Islamic world → hasCulturalContribution → Arabic literature ⓘ
The Ring of the Dove → associatedWith → Arabic literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: Andalusian literature
Dakhni poets → influencedBy → Arabic literature ⓘ
Javanese literature → influencedBy → Arabic literature ⓘ