The Suspended Odes

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The Suspended Odes are a celebrated collection of pre-Islamic Arabic poems, traditionally said to have been so esteemed that they were hung on the walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic literary work
collection of poems
pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
associatedWith Jahiliyyah NERFINISHED
associatedWithScholar Ḥammād al-Rāwiya NERFINISHED
compiledBy later philologists
containsPoemBy Imruʾ al-Qays GENERATED
Labīd ibn Rabīʿa GENERATED
Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā GENERATED
al-Aʿshā GENERATED
al-Nābigha al-Dhubyānī GENERATED
al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza GENERATED
ʿAlqama ibn ʿAbada GENERATED
ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm GENERATED
ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād GENERATED
Ṭarafa ibn al-ʿAbd GENERATED
culturalContext pre-Islamic Arabia
genre qasida
hasAlternativeName The Hanging Odes NERFINISHED
The Muʿallaqāt NERFINISHED
The Suspended Poems NERFINISHED
hasArabicName المعلقات NERFINISHED
hasCanonicalPoets seven major poets
hasLegend poems were written in gold and hung in the Kaaba
hasTraditionalNumber 7
hasTransliteration al-Muʿallaqāt NERFINISHED
hasVariantNumber 10
historicalStatus most famous anthology of pre-Islamic Arabic odes
historicityOfLegend disputed by modern scholars
influenceOn classical Arabic criticism
later Arabic poetry
language Arabic
laterTransmission written manuscripts
literaryImportance foundation of classical Arabic poetic canon
meter classical Arabic meters
numberOfPoems 10
7
preservation oral tradition
region Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED
studiedIn Arabic literature
Islamic studies
comparative literature
theme desert journey
generosity
heroism
love
tribal honor
warfare
wisdom
timePeriod 6th century CE
early 7th century CE
traditionalSetting Kaaba in Mecca NERFINISHED
traditionalStatus hung on the walls of the Kaaba

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Mu'allaqat hasAlternativeName The Suspended Odes