Hamasah

The Hamasah (; ) is a genre of Arabic poetry that "recounts chivalrous exploits in the context of military glories and victories".

The first work in this genre is Kitab al-Hamasah of Abu Tammam.

Hamasah works

List of popular Hamasah works:

• Hamasah of Abu Tammam.
• Al-Waḥshiyyāt (Book of Stray Verses) or al-Ḥamāsah al-á¹£ughrā (The Lesser Ḥamāsah) by Abu Tammam.
• Al-Buhturi compiled a Hamasah that is divided into 174 abwab.
• Ḥamāsat al-ẓurafāʾ (Poems of the Refined and Witty) by Al-Ê¿AbdalkānÄ« al-ZawzanÄ« (d. 431/1039).
• Al-Ḥamāsah al-Shajariyyah of Ibn al-ShajarÄ« (d. 542/1148)
• Al-Ḥamāsah al-Maghribiyyah by Aḥmad b. Ê¿Abd al-Salām al-JurāwÄ« (d. 609/1212)
• Al-Ḥamāsah al-Baá¹£riyyah by á¹¢adr al-DÄ«n Ê¿AlÄ« b. AbÄ« l-Faraj al-Baá¹£rÄ« (d. probably 659/1249)
• Al-Ḥamāsah al-saÊ¿diyyah (known also as al-Tadhkirah al-saÊ¿diyyah) by al-Ê¿UbaydÄ« (d. eighth/fourteenth century)

Lost works:

• Ḥamāsah of Ibn al-Marzubān (d. 309/921).
• Al-Ḥamāsah al-muḥdathah (The Modern Ḥamāsah) by Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004).
• AbÅ« Hilāl al-Ê¿AskarÄ« known to have compiled a Ḥamāsah.
• Al-ShantamarÄ« (d. 476/1083) wrote a Ḥamāsah that is not to be confused with his commentary on the Ḥamāsah of AbÅ« Tammām.
• Al-ShāṭibÄ« (d. 547/1152) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
• AbÅ« al-Ḥajjāj YÅ«suf b. Muḥammad b. IbrāhÄ«m al-AnṣārÄ« al-BayyāsÄ« (d. 653/1255) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
• Ḥamāsat al-muḥdathÄ«n (The Ḥamāsah of the Modern Poets) by * AbÅ« Bakr Muḥammad b. Hāshim al-KhālidÄ« (d. 380/990) and AbÅ« Ê¿Uthmān SaÊ¿Ä«d b. Hāshim (d. 390/999).
• Ḥamāsah by an unknown AbÅ« Dimāsh

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