Nuniyya

Arabic poetic form From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A nūniyya (Arabic: نُونِيَّة, plural نونيات nūniyyāt) is a monorhyme Arabic poetic form in which each line ends with an n sound, coming either from the letter nūn (ن) or from nunation (تَنْوِيْن tanwīn). This creates the consonant rhyme scheme of the poem.

A manuscript of Al-Busti's nuniyya, which opens: زيادة المرء في دنياه نقصان ('To ascend in one's world is to decline')

Among the most famous nuniyyas are the Nuniyya of Ibn Zaydun,[1] the Nuniyya of Khidr Bey, the Nuniyya of Ibn Qayyim, the Nuniyya of Imam al-Qahtani al-Andalusi, the Nuniyya of Abu al-Fath al-Busti, and "Ritha' al-Andalus" by Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi.

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