Naʽat ( নাত ; Punjabi and نعت ) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad . The practice is popular in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and India), commonly in Bengali , Punjabi or Urdu . People who recite Naʽat are known as Naʽat Khawan or sanaʽa-khuaʽan . Exclusive "Praise to Allah" and Allah alone is called Hamd , not to be confused with 'Na'at'.
5-506: In Arab countries, lyrics and praises said for Muhammad are called Madih nabawi . One early author, Hassan, was known as Shair-e Darbaar-e Risalat . Before converting to Islam he was a poet, and after converting he started writing Na'ats in honor of Muhammad. His poetry defended Muhammad in response to rival poets who attacked him and his religion. Talaʽ al Badru ʽAlayna is a traditional Islamic poem known as nasheed recited to Muhammad when he moved to Medina in 622 CE. Commonly
10-462: The New Grove Dictionary of Music , "Northern Sudan has a famous madih tradition, going back to Hajj El-Mahi of Kassinger (c 1780–1870), who composed about 330 religious poems of which handwritten copies survive. They are performed by pairs of male singers with the accompaniment of two frame drums (ṭār), at religious festivities, at markets or outside mosques." Musical genres or subgenres in
15-497: The Islamic prophet Muhammad and his family. The genre dates from 632 CE, immediately after the death of Muhammad, but the performers address Muhammad. It is also a Sufi genre of belletristic Arab literature. A typical performance includes a solo singer, accompanied by a chorus of men with frame drums , the chorus singing a refrain which the soloist improvisationally answers through variation, paraphrasing, or transformation of
20-579: The refrain, emphasising the characteristics of the respective maqam row or scale.. The chorus sings in unison and a new verse of poetry and prayers or blessings for the audience are added at certain places during the chorus. In North Africa , it resembles ma'luf or andalusi nubah , in Egypt the dur , in Syria the muwashshah , and in Iraq the maqam al-iraqi . According to the article about Islamic religious music in
25-450: The term naʽat shareef (exalted poetry) is reserved for poetry in the praise of Muhammad. In Arabic, na'at is usually called madih (praise) or nasheed (poetry), although the latter can describe any type of religious poetry. Madih nabawi Madih nabawi ( Arabic : مديح نبوي , pl. Madā'ih nabawiyah), one of the principal religious genres of Arabic music , is a song form dedicated to expressing praises, love and devotion for
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