Scrabble?! QUIESCENTLY

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ʿArūḍ (Arabic: اَلْعَرُوض‎ al-ʿarūḍ) is the study of poetic meters, which identifies the meter of a poem and determines whether the meter is sound or broken in lines of the poem. It is often called the Science of Poetry (Arabic: عِلْم اَلشِّعْر‎ ʿilm aš-šiʿr). Its laws were laid down by Al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī (d. 786), an early Arab lexicographer and philologist. In his book Al-ʿArḍ (Arabic: العرض‎), which is no longer extant, he described 15 types of meter. Later Al-Akhfash al-Akbar described a 16th meter, the mutadārik.Following al-Khalil, the Arab prosodists scan poetry not in terms of syllables but in terms of vowelled and unvowelled letters, which were combined into larger units known as watid or watad ("peg") and sabab ("cord"). These larger units make up feet (rukn, pl. arkān). Western prosodists, on the other hand, usually analyse the meters in terms of syllables, which can be long (–), short (u), and anceps (x), that is, a syllable which can be optionally long or short. Certain meters also have biceps positions where a pair of short syllables can optionally be replaced by a long one. The great majority (85-90%) of early classical Arabic poetry is composed in just four meters: the ṭawīl (which is the most common), the kāmil, the wāfir, and the basīṭ.Rhyme is an important part of classical Arabic poetry. Almost all Arabic poetry is composed in couplets, and the same rhyme is used in the second half of each couplet throughout the poem. Al-Kʰalīl b. ˀAḫmad al-Farāhīdī ( 711 – 786 A. D.) was the first scholar to subject the prosody of Classical Arabic poetry to a detailed phonological analysis. Unfortunately, he failed to produce a coherent, integrated theory which satisfies the requirements of generality, adequacy, and simplicity; instead, he merely listed and categorized the primary data, thus producing a meticulously detailed but incredibly complex formulation which very few indeed are able to master and utilize. Dr. Zaki N. Abdel-Malek (زكي عبد الملك), a contemporary scholar of Arabic literature and Arabic Linguistics, has developed a new theory which analyzes the prosodic system of ancient Arabic poetry in the light of modern Linguistics theory. Titled Towards a New Theory of Arabic Prosody (نَـحْـوَ نَظريَّةٍ جَديدةٍ في العَــرُوضِ العَربيِّ), Abdel-Malek’s study reduces the metrics of ancient Arabic poetry to a few simple rules and principles which not only account fully for the primary data but also operate within the framework of a general prosodic theory. The study in question is addressed to scholars, students, instructors, and the general reader.