Riddles (Arabic)
Riddles are historically a significant genre of Arabic verse, and extensive scholarly collections have also been made of riddles in oral circulation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Terminology
Riddles are known in Arabic principally as lughz (pl. alghāz), but other terms include uḥjiyya (pl. aḥājī), and ta'miya. The term mu‘ammā (literally 'blinded' or 'obscured') is sometimes used as a synonym for lughz (or to denote cryptography or codes more generally), but it can be used specifically to denote a riddle which is solved 'by combining the constituent letters of the word or name to be found'.
Lughz is a capacious term. As al-Nuwayrī (1272–1332) puts it in the chapter on alghāz and aḥājī in his Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab:
This array of terms goes beyond those covered by riddle in English, into metaphor, ambiguity, and punning, indicating the fuzzy boundaries of the concept of the riddle in literary Arabic culture.
Early attestations
Riddles are attested in early Arabic literary culture, 'scattered in old stories attributed to the pre-Islamic bedouins, in the ḥadīth and elsewhere; and collected in chapters. These collections include al-Zahra by Ibn Dā’ūd al-Iṣbahāni (ch. 89), al-’Iqd al-farīd by Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih (book 25, section entitled Bāb al-lughz), and Ḥilyat al-muḥāḍara by al-Ḥātimi. 'The works of Abū al-‘Alā’ al-Mar‘arrī are riddled with riddles', and al-Mar‘arrī's lost work Gāmi‘ al-awzān is also thought to have contained many riddles, some of which are preserved by later scholars, principally Ibn al-‘Adīm. Several stories in One Thousand and One Nights involve riddles.
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In electricity, charges produce electromagnetic fields which act on other charges. Electricity occurs due to several types of physics:
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Reception
It was John's 63rd—and to date last -- UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was included as a bonus track on the UK re-issue of Elton's album Peachtree Road.
Background
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Electricity (album)
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All songs written and composed by Peter Jefferies, except where noted.
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Easy!
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Cast
Plot
A retired teacher and novelist (Bruno), who survives by private tutoring, is currently writing the biography for former adult star (Tina). He then discovers that one of his students (Luca), a teenager who is on the brink of failure at school, is actually his son.
Music
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Reception
At review aggregate website Metacritic, Lanterns has a weighted mean score of 75 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".Lanterns reached number thirteen on the United States Top Heatseekers albums chart.
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