The Alexandrian Maqāmah — The Husband’s Poetic Defence and the Craft of Eloquence
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- What did the judge demand after hearing the wife?
- What action is pictured in “li-taʿjuma ʿūda daʿwāhu”?
- What is the sense of libs in “I will expose your libs”?
- What does the serpent simile describe?
- Which two reactions are contrasted at the opening of the poem?
- Which town does the speaker name as his birthplace?
- What does “the origin is Ghassān” indicate?
- What is the speaker’s “capital”?
- What is the image in lujjat al-bayān?
- What do the pearls represent?
- What is eloquent selection compared to in ajtanī al-yāniʿ?
- What does the silver-to-gold image suggest?
- What is being lamented in the “market of literature”?
- What does ḍīq dhāt al-yad mean?
- How are anxieties portrayed in sāwaratnī al-humūm?
- What is meant by sabad wa-lā batāt?
- What is the image in the burden of debt on his neck?
- For how long does the poem say hunger continued?
- What does jihāzahā refer to?
- Why does the husband describe aversion and tears?
- What does the husband claim with ḥadd al-tarāḍī?
- What allegation is being answered by zakhraftu qawlī?
- What does the husband deny in mā al-makr bi-l-muḥṣanāt?
- What tool does al-yarāʿ name?
- What links necklaces and composed verse?
- What is the husband’s final request?
- The judge declared the husband guilty immediately after hearing the complaint.
- Lujjat al-bayān literally describes diving in the sea.
- The poem mentions debt and five nights of hunger.
- Hearing the husband’s eloquent poem automatically proves all its claims.