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Post by meltdown711 on Oct 28, 2007 17:59:55 GMT -5
Naim Frakulla was a poet of the 18th century from Berat. He was one of the first poets to write oriental style poetry in Alb using the Arabic alphabet. He composed a number of poems, however most of them have not survived. Although an interesting one has:
Divan, kush pat folure Shqip Ajan e beri Nezimi Bejan kush pat folure Shqip Insan e beri Nezimi Kejo gjuhe qe bere harap me qeder, me shume hixhap Shahit mjaft ky qitap handan e beri Nezimi Veteme mos duash, o mik kete gjuhe flet ky ashik shih udhene qe s'qe acikmejdan e beri Nezimi
Many of the oriental words used here I didnt know since they have been taken out of the Albanian language or they are no longer used. Nezimi here is boasting of the fact that he is the first, or so he claims, poet to write a divan in the Albanian language, who he claims has been "oppressed and messed up". I thought it was a rather interesting poem.
The poem seems to have a rather competitive tone, and Nezim did have an adversary in Berat who eventually caused his exile after their feud brought about unrest in the city. He went for a while to Bessarabia and died in Istanbul.
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Post by meltdown711 on Oct 28, 2007 18:08:37 GMT -5
Btw, just as a note. An Albanian was the first poet to write an Islamic poem that praised the beauty of women. Prior to this all poetry was written by men, praising the beauty of men.
lol
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Post by donnie on Oct 29, 2007 11:35:12 GMT -5
Btw, just as a note. An Albanian was the first poet to write an Islamic poem that praised the beauty of women. Prior to this all poetry was written by men, praising the beauty of men. lol No kidding. Who was the author?
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Post by meltdown711 on Oct 29, 2007 11:48:59 GMT -5
Um gonna try and find his name again, I saw it a while back while I was reading Islam in the Balkans.
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Post by yeni on Oct 29, 2007 13:00:25 GMT -5
lol, i don't know who was the first, but read some poems by Umar ibn Abi Rabia (the guy was a muslim Qurayshi from Mecca and lived during the Umayyad era), he always wrote about chicks.. so unless that Albanian lived earlier, i doubt he was the first.
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Post by meltdown711 on Oct 29, 2007 13:45:35 GMT -5
I may have misinterpreted the statement, I read it a while back. Ill give the whole reference soon enough(as soon as I get back to that page). It may have been in terms of the Balkans, or the Ottoman empire...
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