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Al-Naqāʾiḍ

Arabic lampoon poetry collection

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In Arabic literature: Lampoon
Collected as Al-Naqāʾiḍ (“Flytings”), these contests—involving principally Jarīr and al-Farazdaq but also al-Akhṭal and al-Ṭirimmāh—took the level of invective to new heights (or depths):
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