Mu39Allaqt

The Mu'allaqt ( Arabic : ), also written Mu'allaqat, Mou'allaqt or mouallakats, are a collection of poems pre-Islamic. Their number varies according to the authors: six to ten, seven being the most common. The name means "the suspended" because these odes were suspended at the Ka'ba in Mecca.

Content

These works were written during a time when Byzantine and Persian Sassanid fought the influence on the Arabian Peninsula, through their respective vassals, the Ghassanids and Lakhmids. They were together for the first time by Hammad Ar-Rawiya and contain themes dear to the poetry Arab pre-Islamic

• description of the environment,
• praised the guards, the dead or the poet himself,
• insult enemy clans,
• love,
• wine.

Each text contains, in a logical order, metaphors, comparisons, images, references to life in the desert (for example, in his poem, Tarafa talking about camels tarred because at the time, were coated in bitumen camels mangy and were ruled out from the herd).

The poets in this collection are from different parts of the peninsula, but the whole is written in the language of the region of Hejaz.

The seven classical poets

1. Imr'l-Qais ibn H'ujr ,
2. Amr Ibn Kulthum ,
3. Ibn al-H'arith H'illiza ,
4. Zuhayr Ibn Abi Sulma ,
5. 'Antara Ibn Shaddad (Antar) ,
6. Labid Ibn Rabi'a ,
7. T'arafa Ibn Abd Al-

The three poets additional

1. Al-Maymun'Acha ,
2. Nabigha al-Dhubyn ,
3. Abid Ibn Al-abraca.

Notes

References

• The ten great odes of Arab pre-Islamic, The Mu'allaqut translated and introduced by Jacques Berque , the Arab library, Editions Sindbad ( 1979 )
• The Mu'allaqt, The Seven pre-Islamic poems, prefaced by Andr Miquel , translated and annotated by Pierre Larcher , The immemorial Publishing / Fata Morgana ( 2000 ).
• The Watcher mirages. Five pre-Islamic poetry Al-Maymun A'sha 'Abid b. al-Abras and al-al-Nabigha Dhubyn translated from Arabic and annotated by Pierre Larcher, Small library of Sinbad. Paris and Arles: Sindbad / Actes Sud (2004).
• The Mou'allaqt, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, presentation and translation Jean-Jacques Schmidt , Editions Seghers.
• The Mou'allaqt, presentation and translation of Jean-Jacques Schmidt, peninsulas Spirit Publishing ( 1998 )
• Heidi Toelle , The Hanging (Al-Mu'Allaqt), Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2009. 296 p.

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