![]() ![]() However, the use of poetry in theological debates has not been investigated so far, and researchers have not been able to verify if this poetry was used merely as mnemonics, or whether it played a more important role, such as making a point or establishing an argument. ![]() van Gelder, 1995), didactic poems were written mainly as an aid for teachers. As was pointed out by one of the very few researches dedicated to this genre (G. As reflected in the biographies of fuqahāʼ, they employed the prosodic conventions of classical Arabic poetry in their own poems, and assessed these conventions in their peers' works. Nevertheless, the fuqahāʼ treated this genre seriously. These poems were derogatorily labeled as "the poetry of jurisprudents" (shiʻr al-fuqahāʼ). 808/1406) well-known harsh criticism on this genre focused on the poor language skills of the fuqahāʼ, who, disobeying grammatical conventions, produced lengthy poems of peculiar language. ![]() Versified treatises or didactic poems (manẓūmah) were a very popular genre in medieval Cairo and Damascus, although they were never considered proper poetry by theoreticians. ![]()
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