About Sihr al-Bayan

Sihr al-Bayan is an Android app and website dedicated to Arabic poetry and short prose. The app contains thousands of poems and poets, a daily verse, search that ignores diacritics, favourites and a home-screen widget.

Editorial approach

Only classical poetry in the public domain is published on this website. All introductions, summaries, glossaries and articles are written by our team and are not copied from other sources. Where an Arabic poem page carries commentary, it describes the poem's themes and vocabulary in plain words so that learners and general readers can enjoy it.

Poem texts come from the app's database, curated for completeness and duplicates. If you find an error, please write to us from the developer page.

The developer

The app is developed independently; see the developer page for contact details, privacy policy and account-deletion instructions.