The word qasida is originally an Arabic word (قصيدة, plural qaṣā’id, قصائد), and is still used throughout the Arabic-speaking world; it was borrowed into some other languages such as Persian: قصیده (alongside چكامه, chakameh), and Turkish: kaside.

The Qasida Al-Burda (The Poem of the Mantle), known as The Burda, is a poem in praise of The Prophet ﷺ. It was composed by Al Busiri in the 7th century Hijri and is one of the most widely recited and memorised poems in the world.

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Qaṣīdah, poetic form developed in pre-Islamic Arabia and perpetuated throughout Islamic literary history into the present. It is a laudatory, elegiac, or satiric poem that is found in Arabic, Persian, and many related Asian literatures. The classic is an elaborately structured ode of 60 to 100

May 20, 2011 · Introduction to Arab Poetics, the form of the qasida was deliberately developed to teach Arabness at a time when the culture was resisting Persian, Syriac and Indian influences. One could argue that the pre-Islamic qasida was, in …

Introduction. The Burdah, or the Prophet's صلى الله عليه وسلم Mantle, is a Qasidah (poem) composed by the great Sufi Shaykh Imam Sharafuddin Muhammad Al-Busiri عليه الرحمة who was born in 608 A.H. (1212 C.E) and passed away in 695 A.H. (1296 C.E).. History. Imam Busiri عليه الرحمة wrote this Qasidah after having suffered a stroke and being paralysed in half ...

Aug 11, 2014 · A concept of form for the complex poem, the style of the qasida: polyphonic, shifting, fickle. As the aphorisms pile up, the qasida—really, the notion of poetic form—emerges as “an articulation of motion, a Kama Sutra of positioning.”

Dec 19, 2023 · The qasida (or kasida) is a type of narrative poem from the Middle East, with ancient origins. It dates all the way back to pre-Islamic Arabia and was originally sung aloud. The modern form is made up of couplets called shers and can be quite long, sometimes reaching a few hundred lines.

The Indian qasida History: The Qasida is an Pre-Islamic poetry genre/form from developed in Arabia oral tradition in the 6th century rooted in the Bedouin cycles of nomadic desert life, and spread throughout it's historical life into wild varying contexts throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. It is often defined as an ode, has a strict ...

May 24, 2009 · Qasida, (purpose poem) sometimes spelled kasida, is an ode that dates back to pre-Islamic Arabia and the Bedouins of the desert. It was originally sung in praise of a tribe or to denigrate an enemy.