Hamasah
The Hamasah is a genre of Arabic poetry that "recounts chivalrous exploits in the context of military glories and victories".
The first work in this genre is Kitab al-Hamasah of Abu Tammam.Hamasah works
List of popular Hamasah works:
- Hamasah of Abu Tammam.
- Al-Waḥshiyyāt or al-Ḥamāsah al-ṣughrā by Abu Tammam.
- Al-Buhturi compiled a Hamasah that is divided into 174 abwab.
- Ḥamāsat al-ẓurafāʾ by Al-ʿAbdalkānī al-Zawzanī.
- Al-Ḥamāsah al-Shajariyyah of Ibn al-Shajarī
- Al-Ḥamāsah al-Maghribiyyah by Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Salām al-Jurāwī
- Al-Ḥamāsah al-Baṣriyyah by Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī l-Faraj al-Baṣrī
- Al-Ḥamāsah al-saʿdiyyah by al-ʿUbaydī
Lost works:
- Ḥamāsah of Ibn al-Marzubān.
- Al-Ḥamāsah al-muḥdathah by Ibn Fāris.
- Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī known to have compiled a Ḥamāsah.
- Al-Shantamarī wrote a Ḥamāsah that is not to be confused with his commentary on the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām.
- Al-Shāṭibī compiled a Ḥamāsah.
- Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Bayyāsī compiled a Ḥamāsah.
- Ḥamāsat al-muḥdathīn by * Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Hāshim al-Khālidī and Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Hāshim.
- Ḥamāsah by an unknown Abū Dimāsh
