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Beyond Poetry: Can Large Language Models Generate Classical Arabic Maqamat?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 23, 2026 · UTC

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in creative text generation, yet their ability to produce culturally grounded and stylistically constrained literary forms remains underexplored. Prior work has focused largely on modern language varieties and poetry, while classical prose traditions such as maqama remain largely unstudied. The maqama is a classical literary genre characterized by rhymed prose (saj), dense rhetorical ornamentation, and episodic narrative structure, making it a challenging testbed for evaluating whether LLMs can move beyond surface fluency toward deeper

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