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Islamic poetry is poetry written by Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
s on the topic of Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
. Islamic poetry has been written in many languages.








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Islamic poetry is poetry written by Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
s on the topic of Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
. Islamic poetry has been written in many languages.

Islamic poetry in different languages

  • Arabic poetry
    Arabic poetry

    Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Our present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that....
  • Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry

    Like the Bengali language, Bengali poetry traces its lineage to Pali language and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. An antagonism to Historical Vedic religion rituals and laws heightened to a culmination in the Buddhist and Jainist movements....
  • Persian poetry
    Persian literature

    Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
  • Turkish poetry
  • Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry

    Urdu poetry is one of the most dominant and prominent poetries of times and has many different colours & types. It has generated its root from Arabic and mainly from Persian language and is an important part of Indian culture and Culture of Pakistan....


Genres of Islamic poetry

  • Sufi poetry
    Sufi poetry

    Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world....
  • Qawali


See also

  • Sufism
    Sufism

    Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....