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.

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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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Islamic world hasCulturalContribution Arabic literature