Imruʾ al-Qays: The Deserted Campsite and the First Six Verses

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• Why has early Arabic poetry been called dīwān al-ʿArab?
• Which poet opens the collection in this edition?
• What does nasīb commonly refer to in a qaṣīdah?
• What is the morphological form of qifā?
• Why is the final yāʾ absent from nabki?
• What is the literary effect of pairing ḥabīb with manzil?
• What kind of landscape feature is siqṭ in bi-siqṭ al-liwā?
• What are al-Dakhūl and Ḥawmal in the opening verse?
• What does lam yaʿfu rasmuhā mean?
• Why is the final weak letter omitted in lam yaʿfu?
• Which two wind directions do janūb and shamʾal denote?
• What is the key image in nasajathā?
• What does al-ārām refer to here?
• What are ʿaraṣātihā?
• What landscape does qīʿānihā describe?
• What is being compared in kaʾannahu ḥabbu fulful?
• To what does -hu in kaʾannahu refer?
• What does ghadāt al-bayn mean?
• What does taḥammalū mean in this context?
• What grammatical type is nāqif in nāqif ḥanẓal?
• What is the syntactic role of nāqif after kaʾannī?
• How is wuqūfan used here?
• What kind of lā appears in lā tahluk?
• What conduct do the companions urge with wa-tajammal?
• What is the relation between ʿabrah and muhrāqah?
• What is the principal rhetorical force of the final question?