qasidan.

1772 W. Jones Ess. Poetry Eastern Nations in Poems 183 The most excellent of these poems were transcribed in characters of gold upon Egyptian paper;..the poems of this sort were called Casseida's or eclogues.

a1817 J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Nubia (1819) 354 Like the eastern Arabs, they celebrate the praises of their warriors in the Kaszyde.

1842 Baron Mac Guckin de Slane in Ibn Khallikan Biogr. Dict. I. p. xxxiii The opinion held in the schools that the ancient kasídas were masterpieces of art contributed also to the perversion of good taste; their plan and ideas were servilely copied, and it was by refinement of expression alone that writers could display their talent.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 656/1 Those principal forms of poetry now used in common by all Mohammedan nations—the forms of the ḳaṣída (the encomiastic, elegiac, or satirical poem), the ghazal or ode [etc.].

1903 C. Huart Hist. Arabic Lit. ii. 10 According to the ancient rules..the author of a qaṣîda must begin by a reference to the forsaken camping-grounds.

1927 F. Krenkow in T. Houtsma et al. Encycl. of Islam II. 796/2 The form of the ḳaṣīda has survived to modern times and I have specimens by poets still living where we find..a description of a desert-ride by persons who live in Cairo and travel by railway.

1958 L. Durrell Balthazar iv. 82 He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild quasidas that the old man sang.

1994 A. Gurnah Paradise (1995) 197 Aching notes held for long moments instead of rising and falling with the solemn ecstasy of his old qasidas.