We propose a machine learning method for recognizing modern Arabic poems based on the common poetic features of modern Arabic poetry. The poetic features include: rhyming, repetition, use of diacritics and punctuations, and text alignment. The method can classify text documents as poem or non-poem documents with a very high accuracy of 99.81%.

the musical symbol is one way of expression among many other ways. it doesn`t directly correspond with meaning or reality. rather, it provides images that are representative of the original. however, symbols goes beyond this and provide deep significant symbolic meanings and visions. mystical poetry has a complex intellectual structure, particularly in arabic and persian literature. hence, musi...

Abstract The article analyses the ways Ḥamīd al-Dīn Balḫī (d. 559/1164) adopted and adapted technique of earlier Arabic authors, most notably al-Ḥarīrī 516/1122), in his Persian maqāmas . It also emends traditional dating maqāma collection.

This paper presents a new approach for document image decomposition and verification based on connected component analysis and geometric properties of labeled regions. The database contains document images with Persian/Arabic text combined with English text, headlines, ruling lines, trademarks and cursive signatures. In particular, Persian/Arabic signature extraction is investigated using speci...

This paper describes an extension to ditroff/ffortid, a system for formatting bi-directional text in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. The previous version of the system is able to format mixed left-to-right and rightto-left text using fonts with separated letters or with connecting letters and only connection stretching, achieved by repeating fixed-length baseline fillers. The latest extension adds ...

Literary genre “maqtal” came to literature from the arabs. Then it passed persians, and then Turkish literature. During time of prophet after him, wars their tragedies were called as "maqtal." The arabic word maqtal means "the place where a person is killed when he killed." XIV century specimens are richer than this one gives some materials for research. An acquaintance with Yusuf Maddah's masn...