| Author | Various poets |
|---|---|
| Original title | المعلقات |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Published | 8th century (compiled) |
| Publication place | Arabia |
| Media type | Manuscript |
| Part of a series on |
| Arabic culture |
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The Muʻallaqāt (Arabic: المعلقات, [ʔalmuʕallaqaːt]) is a compilation of seven long pre-Islamic Arabic poems.[1] The name means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems, they were named so because these poems were hung in the Kaaba in Mecca,[2] Some scholars have also suggested that the hanging is figurative, as if the poems "hang" in the reader's mind.[3]
Along with the Mufaddaliyat, Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab, Asma'iyyat, and the Hamasah, the Mu'allaqāt are considered the primary source for early written Arabic poetry.[4] Scholar Peter N. Stearns goes so far as to say that they represent "the most sophisticated poetic production in the history of Arabic letters."[5]
- ^ Pettersson, Anders; Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla; Petersson, Margareta; Helgesson, Stefan (2011). Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Volume 1: Notions of Literature Across Cultures. Volume 2: Literary Genres: An Intercultural Approach. Volume 3+4: Literary Interactions in the Modern World 1+2. Walter de Gruyter. p. 158. ISBN 978-3-11-089411-0.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Nöldeke, Theodor (1911). "Mo'allakāt". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 632–635.
- ^ Robson, James (1936). "The Meaning of the Title "Al-Mu'allaqāt"". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 68 (1): 83–86. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00076371. ISSN 0035-869X. JSTOR 25182040. S2CID 162483920.
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- ^ Stearns, Peter N. “Arabic Language and Literature.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 2008.
