Splitting the Moon: A Collection of Islamic Poetry

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Said to have been banished into exile for his inordinate love of poetry, al-Qais wandered the land writing poetry of his own. In Bedouin culture, the shared memories embodied in those words kept the past alive, while silence begot forgetfulness, and forgetfulness begot lost memories which was tantamount to death. Poetry, in fact, was instrumental in the development of the Arabic language, with its formal grammar being first set out by the poets living on the Arabian Peninsula. Those rock art inscriptions harbor many secrets yet to be unraveled, at least some of them likely related—it seems—to poetry associated with the Bedouin oral tradition.

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The Bedouins of the pre-Islamic period are generally portrayed as a proud and boastful people, fond of epic tales and emotive poetry and expressive prose.In 2016 he was named as the “Best Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences” at the Middle East Education Leadership Awards.