This paper analyzes and comments on the first chapter of the manuscript Sharḥ Farā'id al-Fawā'id li Taḥqīq Ma‘ānī al-Isti‘āra by Ḥusayn al-ʻIsbaʻī al-Sārāyī, a renowned Bosnian author active in Sarajevo. In this work, al-Isbaʻī sought to summarize key elements of Arabic stylistic discipline known as ‘ilm al-bayān, drawing upon the...

By Semir Rebronja

Created in the 7th century, Uzrit love poetry or desert love poetry is inspired by love. It is named after the tribe to which poet Džemil (Ğamīl), one of the most famous love poets, belonged. In these poems, a lover spends his whole life in longing and absence, yearning for his beloved one. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centu...

By Semir Rebronja

Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafā al-Būsnawī al-Madanī, Hasan Bošnjak, was born in Medina in the last decade of the 12th century AH, and he wrote in the first half of the 13th century (the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century). With regards to the year of Hasan Bošnjak’s death, we might assume that he died in the mid-13th century AH. Analyzing hi...

By Semir Rebronja

The paper treats the Arabic love poetry and its main features in the pre-Islamic and Umayyad period. The formation, development and characteristics of this poetry are closely related to the nature of the poet, as well as the place of its origin. Based on this, we distinguish between urban and desert ghazals. From the point of stylistic peculiaritie...

By Semir Rebronja