Talk:Qasida

message: This page needs serious revisions. Nationalists and bigots have been doing strange edits. Here are my suggestions. Since the word Qasida is used in at least three languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu) to define certain style of poetry, this article should be chronologically divided into the same three sections:
FOR ARABIC SECTION
# Initial definition of Qasida in Arabic starting with the mu'alaqaat. 
# full explanation. For example in Farsi, later Qasida was composed in praise of one person, whereas original Arabi Qasaid sometimes failed to explicitly praise anyone. Often the the poet praises his girl (ghazal) and horse or camel (either in 'raheel' or 'fakhr' section) but no one else in perticular. Eg. the Qasida of Antara bin Shaddad.
# Sections of the Qasaid: sana, ritha, raheel, ghazal, majd, takhallus, hija, fakhr, etc.
# Themes expressed in the Qasaid (NOTE: all these should be in strict chronological order)
# Style of Arabic Qasaid before and after Prophet Mohammed including modern Qasida.
FOR FARSI SECTION
# different names (eg. chakameh or variant of plural).
# Development.
# IN FARSI the classical Arabic Qasida was split into its various parts each taking a different form: ghazal for example became a separate genre of poetry whereas in Arabic, Ghazal was an integral part of the Qasida.
# The fact that in Farsi QASIDA is an explicit PRAISE of someone, usually a king, prince (or saint?). Whereas the classical Arabic Qasaid were said to be in praise of the poet's girl (the section where the poet explicitly mentions the girl is called ghazal) but also praised the poet himself, his tribe, his horse and/ or camel, sometimes chiefs and kings and of course the Prophet himself (NOT ALL QASAID were praised a third person. For Example: Antara praises NO ONE except his girl Abla, his horse Abjar and himself.
# The fineries of Farsi versification, esp. as applied to the Qasida, including subsections on style, types, rhyme and meter, etc
# Any other variations.
# Variations (if any) between Farsi Qasida in Iran and Afghanistan and Tajikistan (historically there were NO variations at all. In recent times maybe things have changed?).
FOR URDU SECTION
(as far as I am aware Urdu Qasida follows the same formula as Farsi Qasida)
# Whatever is different in Urdu from Farsi Qasida.
# Names of Urdu Qasida-poets.
EXTERNAL LINKS
should similarly reflect all three different forms of Qasida. 
(Is Qasida also used in Turkish? and Uzbek, Turkmen, Qazakh, etc.?)
78.149.168.132 (talk) 00:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly I find your assumptions to be bigoted, in spite of your accusation of unnamed others of being so. I usually find people that use the word "Farsi" are not well suited to be a source of information on anything related to the Persian language, history, literature or otherwise. We do badly need a non-muslim, non-arabic perspective on this article to counter the false assumptions you have introduced hereGorvius (talk) 04:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: SUGGESTED CHANGES

message: This and the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kasidah should really be interlinked, with a brief note on the latter being a form of the former.
DIY, one might say, however I'm no Wikipedian ;) Greetz.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.109.68.224 (talk) 15:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burton's The Kasidah 

message: I have tagged its neutrality as questionable, as it is exclusively referring to this topic as "arab" and "islamic" and appears to politicize the topic with use of certain terminology. It would be nice to have some non-Pakistani editors also have a look at this article and make corrections.
Also please don't use the word "Farsi" in an english language article. The language is formally called Persian in english. I generally find that people that use the word "farsi" are making not well suited to make edits on anything related to topics related to Persia, the Persian language, history and culture.Gorvius (talk) 04:25, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is badly in need of a review!