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The 20 pages that link to Qasida, each with the reason it gives.

• GhazalNarrower topic: The ghazal developed from the amatory opening tradition of the qasida.

• Arabic literatureBroader topic: The qasida became a central classical form and a model for poetic craft.

• Arabic poetryBroader topic: Its formal structure became a defining classical poetic model.

• Persian poetryBroader topic: Its formal scope gave Persian poets a major mode beyond the ghazal.

• Arabic literary criticismBroader topic: This major poetic form gives critics a conventional structure to interpret and assess.

• RadifRelated: The qasida shares Persian rhyme conventions and can also employ a repeated ending.

• Pre-Islamic Arabic poetryBroader topic: The qasida is the form most closely associated with the era’s celebrated odes.

• Mu'allaqatNarrower topic: The Mu'allaqat are celebrated examples of this established ode form.

• Al-MutanabbiBroader topic: Many of his panegyrics use the qasida’s expansive structure and formal demands.

• Abu NuwasRelated: Its conventions supplied a model Abu Nuwas challenged, especially through his rejection of the desert prelude.

• Imru' al-QaisNarrower topic: Imru' al-Qais is traditionally celebrated as a master of this form.

• Islamic literatureBroader topic: The qasida became a major vehicle for praise, elegy, counsel, and religious expression.

• Al-BuhturiNarrower topic: Al-Buhturi used this established ode form for praise and description.

• Al-FarazdaqNarrower topic: Many of his poems use the classical ode form to carry praise, satire, and tribal memory.

• Zuhayr ibn Abi SulmaNarrower topic: Zuhayr’s major poems follow the qasida tradition.

• Mohammad-Taqi BaharRelated: Bahar renewed this classical form, often using it to address modern political concerns.

• Al-Akhtal al-TaghlibiRelated: This form provided a structure for extended praise and tribal expression.

• Ibn al-FaridRelated: The Nazm al-suluk adapts the qasida’s extended, tightly patterned form.

• Jarir ibn AtiyahRelated: Jarir used the qasida’s formal conventions for both satire and panegyric.

• Labīd ibn RabīʿahRelated: Labīd’s Muʿallaqa follows the qasida tradition, including its opening remembrance of abandoned campsites.