W ''Arafat

Biographic Data

ID704744
NAMEW ''Arafat
GIVEN NAMESW
FAMILY NAME''Arafat
SIGNATUREARAFAT W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
H-INDEX0

  • The Historical Significance Of Later Anṣārī Poetry-I

    Open AccessW ''Arafat, W 'ArafatARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1966

    Of the poems of boasting ascribed to Hassan b. Thabit, 16 are found on investigation to be by later Ansarls and reflect the inferior status to which the Ansar in general were reduced after the battle of al-Harra and the sack of Madina in the year A.H. 63, as well as, occasionally, the tribal rivalries which prevailed during the Umayyad period

  • The Historical Significance Of Later Anṣārī Poetry-II

    Open AccessW ''Arafat, W 'Arafat et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1966

    A second group of poems share the same characteristics with the poems discussed in part I of this article, and are of equally late authorship. However, they lack the explicit evidence of a later date. These are nos. VII, X, XIX, LXXIX.2 Poem no. VII is yet one more of those 'defensivexs' poems which seem to indicate that not only the poet, but the whole tribe, in the wider sense, are on the defensive. Although it can be argued that the poem is no…

  • An aspect of the forger's art in early Islamic poetry

    Open AccessW ''Arafat, W 'Arafat et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1965

    A study of the poetry of the Sīra shows that a high proportion of it is the work of more or less professional forgers who supplied narrators with poems especially prepared to suit the narrative and appeal to the audience whose outlook towards the events of early Islam had undergone considerable change. Two or three generations after the final victory of Islam and the death of the Prophet, the persons as well as the events of that era were becomin…