Al-Hamziyya

Qasīdat al-Hamziyya (قصيدة الهمزية), or al-Hamziyya for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for the Islamic prophet Muhammad composed by the eminent Sufi mystic Imam al-Busiri of Egypt.

This poem was written according to the metre of Bahr Khafif in Arabic poetry, and it is composed of 457 verses.