Title: The rhetorical fabric of the traditional Arabic Qaṣīda in its formative stages
Subjects: Qasidas, History and criticism, Arabic poetry, Arabic language, Rhetoric, Arabic poetry, history and criticism
People: ʻAlqamah ibn ʻAbadah (active 6th century), Bashshār ibn Burd (-783 or 784), ʻAlqama al-Faḥl (6e E), Abū Muʻād̲ al-Muraʻʻat̲ Baššār b. Burd (ca714-784)
Time periods: To 622, 750-1258