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Islamic poetry

This category lists poetry related to Islam, or written by Muslim authors.

[edit] Collections

• Poems of the Orient, 1855 by Bayard Taylor[1]
• The Poetry of the Orient, 1874[2]

[edit] The Hanged Poems

This is a collection of seven poems, predating Muhammad's birth, which were displayed in the Kaaba.

• The Poem of Amru, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881
• The Poem of Imru-ul-Quais, as translated by F. E. Johnson in 1917

• The Poem of Antara, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881
• The Poem of Antar, as translated by F. E. Johnson in 1917

• The Poem of Zohair, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881
• The Poem of Zuhair, as translated by F. E. Johnson in 1917

• The Poem of Tarafa, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881

• The Poem of Labid, as translated by C. J. Lyall
• The Poem of Lebeid, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881

• The Poem of Amriolkais, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881
• The Poem of 'Amr ibn Kulthum

• The Poem of Hareth, as translated by W. A. Clouston in 1881
• The Poem of Harith ibn Hilliza

Poems sometimes named as having been in the collection

• The Poem of Al-Nabigha
• The Poem of al-A'sha
• The Poem of 'Abid ibn al-Abras

[edit] Verse

• Mountain Poem of Ibm Khafaja, by Ibn Khafaja
• To the Caliph Harun-al-Rashid
• We Have Mingled Our Blood With Streaming Tears, 12th century lamentation of Muslim armies by Almodhafer al-Abiwerdy

• also translated as On the Capture of Jerusalem in the First Crusade,

• The Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1789 by future British Prime Minister George Canning
• A Believer's Shroud, 1874 poem about the death of a Muslim by William Rounseville Alger
• Joseph and Zuleika, 1917 poem of a Quranic story by Abdorrahman Jami
• The Call Divine, 1933 poem of the life of Muhammad by Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy
• Anwari poem, by Anwari
• O butterfly, O Moslem-woman
• The Caliph and Satan
• The Wisdom of Ali
• The Birth of the Prophet
• The Arab Warrior

[edit] Analytical works

• The Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets, 1870 by Wilhelm Ahlwardt
• Studies in Islamic poetry, 1921 by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson[3]
• Mohammed's Truth, 1921 by Charles T. Paul