A badīʿiyya is a poem illustrating the various figures of speech and stylistic embellishments collectively known as badīʿ and usually takes the form of an ode on the prophet Muḥammad. Many of these poems were composed in specific emulation of the badīʿiyya by the Iraqi poet Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī (d. c.750/1349), who also set the trend of providing a commentary for the poem. The genre flourished in Arabic until the late-nineteenth century. After a modest beginning in the seminal treatise Kitāb al-badīʿ , written in