Question
A poet who wrote during this dynasty described a Dantesque tour of the afterlife in The Epistle of Forgiveness. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this dynasty whose poetic innovations were discussed in a treatise by a prince who ruled it for one day. Under this dynasty, a scholar divided meters into five circles based on their “pegs” and “cords.”
ANSWER: Abbasid dynasty [or Abbasid Caliphate; or Banu al-‘Abbās; or al-Khilāfah al-‘Abbāsiyyah] (Clues include al-Ma‘arrī, Prince Abdallah ibn al-Mu’tazz, and al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdīal-Farahidi.)
[10e] The Abbasid poet al-Ma‘arrī subjected himself to a demanding form of this device for the poems of his Luzūmiyyāt. “Schemes” of this poetic device are notated with sequences of letters like AABA.
ANSWER: rhyme [accept rhyme schemes]
[10m] The Abbasid caliph Hārūn instructs his son to insult a bully’s mother in this later poetry collection. A man with no shoes meets a man with no feet in a poem from this collection by the Persian author of the Bustan, Sa’di.
ANSWER: Gulistān [or Golestān; or The Rose Garden]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 13.81 | 100% | 33% | 5% |
Data
| Waterloo | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | McGill | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |