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Zajal (Arabic: زجل) is a traditional form of oral strophic poetry declaimed in a colloquial dialect. The earliest recorded zajal poet was the poet Ibn Quzman of al-Andalus who lived from 1078 to 1160.^[1] Most scholars see the Andalusi Arabic zajal, the stress-syllable versification of which differs significantly from the quantitative meter of classical Arabic poetry, as a form of expression adapted from Romance popular poetry traditions into Arabic—first at the folkloric level and then by lettered poets such as Ibn Quzman.^[2]

It is generally conceded that the early ancestors of Levantine dialectical poetry were the Andalusian zajal and muwashshaḥah, brought to Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean by Moors fleeing Spain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.^[3] An early master of Egyptian zajal was the fourteenth century zajjāl Abu ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghubārī.^[4] Zajal's origins may be ancient but it can be traced back to at least the 12th century. Today, it is most alive in the Levant—especially in Lebanon (see below), Palestine, Syria, and in Jordan where professional zajal practitioners can attain high levels of recognition and popularity—as well as the Maghreb, particularly Morocco and Algeria. Zajal is semi-improvised and semi-sung and is often performed in the format of a debate between zajjalin (poets who improvise the zajal). It is usually accompanied by percussive musical instruments (with the occasional wind instrument, e.g. the ney) and a chorus of men (and more recently, women) who sing parts of the verse.

Egyptian poets known for their literary use of the popular zajal form are Yaqub Sanu, 'Abd Allah al-Nadim, Bayram al-Tunisi, and Ahmed Fouad Negm.^[5] Well-known Lebanese zajjaali include Zein Sh'eib, Talih Hamdan, Zaghloul alDamour, Moussa Zgheib, Asaad Said, and Khalil Rukoz.

^ Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul, eds. (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Volume 2. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 819. ISBN 978-0-415-18572-1.
^ Monroe, James T. (2023-11-30), "Andalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry", The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry, New York: Routledge, pp. 86–107, doi:10.4324/9781003096955-4, ISBN 978-1-003-09695-5, retrieved 2024-02-20
^ Yaqub, Nadia G. (2007). Pens, Swords, And the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee. Leiden: BRILL. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-90-04-15259-5.
^ Hámori, András (1991). The Composition of Mutanabbī's Panegyrics to Sayf Al-Dawla. Leiden: BRILL. p. 14. ISBN 90-04-10217-5.
^ Beinin, Joel (1994). "Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal)". Poetics Today. 15 (2): 191–215. doi:10.2307/1773164. JSTOR 1773164.

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