Asma'iyyat

The Aṣmaʿiyyāt (Arabic: الأصمعيات) is a well-known^[1] early anthology of Arabic poetry by Al-Asma'i. The collection is considered one of the primary sources for pre-Islamic Arabic poetry along with the Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab, Hamasah, Mu'allaqat and Mufaddaliyat.^[2][3] It consists of 92 qasidahs by 71 poets from both Pre-Islamic Arabia (44 of them jahili) as well as the early Islamic era.^[4]

Unlike the Mufaddaliyat, the Asma'iyyat have not been preserved in their entirety and there were originally more than the surviving 72 passages. The modern print was first compiled and republished by German Orientalist Wilhelm Ahlwardt.

See also

• Abu Tammam
• al-Mufaddal

Citations

1. Ramzi Baalbaki, The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century, pg. 89. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2014. ISBN 9789004274013
2. Wen-chin Ouyang, Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition, pg. 65. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780748608973
3. Shady Nasser, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh, pg. 210. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. ISBN 9789004241794
4. Ludwig W. Adamec, The A to Z of Islam, pg. 43. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN 9780810871601