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Alabina, “Habibi ya Nour el Ain” (Music Video)

Juan Cole 05/07/2013

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Some Spanish lyrics, some Arabic. In medieval Arabic poetry this genre was called mulamma`at.

Alabina, “Habibi ya Nour el Ain,” rare version

As This source points out,

“The mulamma’, “patch-work,” or “macaronic” poem, composed in alternate lines or couplets in two or more different languages, has no separate form, and will be more suitably considered when we come to speak . . . . the classification of poems according to matter.”

For a long time, after Arabic stopped being cultivated in Spain, the recorded Arabic/ Spanish mixed poetry was misunderstood as just Spanish and the Arabic thought nonsense words like hey nonny nonny.

Lyrics & translation here

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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