Al-Hamziyya

Qasīdat al-Hamziyya, or al-Hamziyya for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for the Islamic prophet Muhammad composed by the eminent Sufi mystic Imam al-Busiri of Egypt.
This poem was written according to the metre of in Arabic poetry, and it is composed of 457 verses.
In 2025, Sandala Inc. and Abu Zahra Press, Inc. published an annotated English translation of the complete Hamziyyah, introduced by a comprehensive essay that places the poem in a wider ethical and historical context, by American Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf.