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- Source: pre-Islamic Arabian features that remained at core of Islamic culture
- Centrality of Arabic language and verbal arts, especially poetry
- Linguistic form: the qasida (monorhyme, monometer)
- Genres of love (nasib), praise (madih), description, satire (hija')
- Courtesan tradition: the qayna
