The art of the Mawalia and its crystallization in the Eighth Century AH

Abstract

The emergence of the new poetic arts, including the  Mawalia  at an early time, was a remarkable artistic development, and it called for the reactions of the conservative linguistic and critical circles that fought and excluded it from the Arab heritage to a large extent, due to its distance from the rules of grammar and the column of poetry and performances, and these arts continued in the shadows until they appeared with the spread of melody and kick and the prevalence of Ajama and colloquial styles in Arabic poetry as a result of the mixing of cultures and genders in Arab society.

  The Mawalia is distinguished from the rest of the new arts by oscillating between expression and melody, and the adoption of only one sea, the simple meter, which made the systems in it a little, and the oldest examples date back to the end of the sixth century of migration, and then the systems increased in it later, and it received attention in the eighth century of migration by Safi al-Din al-Hilli, who looked at it, and a lot of Mawalia were lost as a result of poor interest in it, and this art crystallized in the Ottoman era to become the so-called mawal, and the mawal sank in the local until its connotations were closed outside the country in which it is organized.