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