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Some of the poems exhibit great divergences (both in the order and number of the verses and in textual details) from their exemplars in other poetic anthologies. This is particularly the case with the oldest Mu'allaqat, that of Imru' al-Qais. According to Nöldeke, the most accurate text is that of the latest Mu'allaqat, the song of Labid. [2]
Zuhayr's poems can be found in Hammad Ar-Rawiya's anthology, the Mu'allaqat ("the Suspended"), a collection of pre-Islamic poetry. He was one of the seven poets featured in that collection who were reputed to have been honoured by hanging copies of their work in the Kaaba at Mecca.
His qaṣīda, or long poem, "Let us stop and weep" (قفا نبك qifā nabki) is one of the seven Mu'allaqat, poems prized as the best examples of pre-Islamic Arabian verse. His father was said to be Hujr bin al-Harith ( حجر ابن الحارث Ḥujr ibn al-Ḥārith ), the Kindan regent over the Arab tribes of Asad and Ghatafan , and it ...
He was the author of one of the seven famous pre-Islamic poems known as the Mu'allaqat. Little is known of the details of his life. [1] The story of the mu'allaqa which al-Harith composed is as follows. [2] [3] A dispute had arisen between the men of Taghlib and those of Bakr after a number of young Taghlib men had died in the desert.
The Mu'allaqat ("The Suspended Odes" or "The Hanging Poems"), a group of seven long poems collected in the 8th century. It may have been collected by Hammad Ar-Rawiya . Arberry, The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic Literature , Routledge, 1957.
The first section consists of the seven Mu'allaqat. [2] The anthology is the first source to use the name Mu'allaqat; earlier writers describe the poems simply as "the Seven." [6] Al-Qurashi's choice of poems is somewhat idiosyncratic, as he includes Al-Nabigha and Al-A'sha among the seven and excludes Antarah ibn Shaddad and Al-Harith. [7]
The oldest poems in the collection date from about 500 CE. The collection is a valuable source concerning pre-Islamic Arab life. The Mufaḍḍaliyāt is one of five canonical primary sources of early Arabic poetry. The four others are Mu'allaqat, Hamasah, Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab and the Asma'iyyat. [6] [7]
Some of the most reputable collections of these poems included the Mu'allaqat (meaning "the hung poems", because they are traditionally thought to have been hung on or in the Kaaba) and the Mufaddaliyat (meaning "al-Mufaddal's examination" or "anthology"). The Mu'allaqat aimed to be the definitive source of the era's output with only a single ...