Arabic literature
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Arabic literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Arabic language, encompassing poetry, prose, religious and philosophical texts, and modern literary forms from pre-Islamic times to the present.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabic literature canonical | 3 |
| Andalusian literature | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Arabic literature Context triple: [Islamic world, hasCulturalContribution, Arabic literature]
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Turkish literature
Turkish literature is the body of written and oral works produced over centuries by Turkish-speaking peoples, ranging from classical Ottoman poetry and folk epics to modern novels and contemporary poetry.
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B.
Arabic
Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.
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C.
Old Arabic
Old Arabic is the early stage of the Arabic language attested in pre-Islamic inscriptions and poetry, representing the linguistic ancestor of Classical and Modern Arabic varieties.
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Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic is the standardized, literary form of the Arabic language used in the Quran and early Islamic literature, serving as the historical foundation for Modern Standard Arabic.
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Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic is a major regional variety of Arabic spoken primarily in western Saudi Arabia, especially in the Hijaz region including cities like Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Arabic literature Target entity description: Arabic literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Arabic language, encompassing poetry, prose, religious and philosophical texts, and modern literary forms from pre-Islamic times to the present.
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A.
Turkish literature
Turkish literature is the body of written and oral works produced over centuries by Turkish-speaking peoples, ranging from classical Ottoman poetry and folk epics to modern novels and contemporary poetry.
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B.
Arabic
Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.
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C.
Old Arabic
Old Arabic is the early stage of the Arabic language attested in pre-Islamic inscriptions and poetry, representing the linguistic ancestor of Classical and Modern Arabic varieties.
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D.
Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic is the standardized, literary form of the Arabic language used in the Quran and early Islamic literature, serving as the historical foundation for Modern Standard Arabic.
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E.
Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic is a major regional variety of Arabic spoken primarily in western Saudi Arabia, especially in the Hijaz region including cities like Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (123)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of written works
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cultural tradition ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| hasCentralTheme |
colonialism
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exile ⓘ heroism ⓘ identity ⓘ love ⓘ modernity ⓘ mysticism ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| hasForm |
autobiography
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criticism ⓘ drama ⓘ essay ⓘ literary theory ⓘ memoir ⓘ novel ⓘ oral literature ⓘ philosophical text ⓘ poetry ⓘ prose ⓘ religious text ⓘ short story ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
Sufi poetry
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adab ⓘ biographical dictionary ⓘ children's literature ⓘ didactic literature ⓘ epic ⓘ epistle ⓘ folk tale ⓘ ghazal ⓘ historical chronicle ⓘ maqama ⓘ muwashshah ⓘ political novel ⓘ prison literature ⓘ qasida ⓘ romantic novel ⓘ social realist novel ⓘ war literature ⓘ zajal ⓘ |
| hasGeographicScope |
Andalusia
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Arabian Peninsula ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ |
| hasImportantMovement |
Mahjar movement
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Nahda ⓘ free verse movement ⓘ modernist poetry movement ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Andalusian literature
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European medieval literature ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ Turkish literature ⓘ Urdu literature ⓘ |
| hasNotableAuthor |
Abdelrahman Munif
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Abu Nuwas ⓘ Adonis ⓘ al‑Ghazali ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Ghazali
Al-Hariri of Basra ⓘ Al-Jahiz ⓘ Al-Ma'arri ⓘ Al-Mutanabbi ⓘ Alaa Al Aswany ⓘ Antarah ibn Shaddad ⓘ Ghassan Kanafani ⓘ Hanan al-Shaykh ⓘ Ibn Arabi ⓘ Ibn Hazm ⓘ Ibn Khaldun ⓘ Averroes ⓘ
surface form:
Ibn Rushd
Ibn al-Muqaffa' ⓘ Imru' al-Qais ⓘ Jibran Khalil Jibran ⓘ Mahmoud Darwish ⓘ Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ Nizar Qabbani ⓘ Rabia al‑Adawiyya ⓘ
surface form:
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
Sonallah Ibrahim ⓘ Taha Hussein ⓘ Tayeb Salih ⓘ |
| hasNotableAwardRecipient | Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Gate of the Sun
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Memory for Forgetfulness ⓘ Men in the Sun ⓘ Mu'allaqat ⓘ The Arabian Nights ⓘ
surface form:
One Thousand and One Nights
Palace Walk ⓘ Season of Migration to the North ⓘ The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ The Deliverance from Error ⓘ The Epistle of Forgiveness ⓘ The Golden Meadows ⓘ The Incoherence of the Incoherence ⓘ The Incoherence of the Philosophers ⓘ The Ring of the Dove ⓘ |
| hasPeriod |
Abbasid Caliphate
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surface form:
Abbasid period
Islamic Spain ⓘ
surface form:
Andalusian period
Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Mamluk period
Nahda ⓘ Ottoman period ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
surface form:
Umayyad period
contemporary Arabic literature ⓘ early Islamic literature ⓘ modern Arabic literature ⓘ pre-Islamic literature ⓘ |
| hasTemporalRange | pre-Islamic era to present ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic alphabet
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surface form:
Arabic script
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| isInfluencedBy |
Greek philosophy
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Islam ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ Quran ⓘ Syriac literature ⓘ pre-Islamic Arabian culture ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Arab world ⓘ |
| received | Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| usesLanguage | Arabic language ⓘ |
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Subject: Arabic literature Description of subject: Arabic literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Arabic language, encompassing poetry, prose, religious and philosophical texts, and modern literary forms from pre-Islamic times to the present.
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