The Hanging Odes

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The Hanging Odes are a celebrated collection of pre-Islamic Arabic poems renowned for their linguistic artistry and foundational role in classical Arabic literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf classical Arabic poetry anthology
collection of poems
pre-Islamic Arabic literary work
alternativeCountTradition 10
associatedLegend poems hung on the Kaaba in Mecca
canonicalStatus core of the Arabic poetic canon
countryOfOrigin Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED
culturalRole model for later Arabic poets
source for Arabic grammar and rhetoric
source for classical Arabic lexicography
evaluatedBy medieval Arab philologists
genre qasida
hasPart Mu‘allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of Imru’ al-Qays NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of Labid ibn Rabi‘a NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of Tarafa ibn al-‘Abd NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of al-Harith ibn Hilliza NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of ‘Antara ibn Shaddad NERFINISHED
hasPartVariant Mu‘allaqa of al-A‘sha NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani NERFINISHED
Mu‘allaqa of al-‘Abid ibn al-Abras NERFINISHED
historicityOfLegend disputed
influenceOn Abbasid-era poetry
Arabic grammatical tradition
Arabic literary criticism
language Arabic
laterMedium written manuscript
literaryPeriod Jahiliyyah NERFINISHED
meter classical Arabic quantitative meters
notableFor foundational role in classical Arabic literature
linguistic artistry
rhetorical excellence
numberOfPoems 7
originalMedium oral poetry
region Najd NERFINISHED
eastern Arabia NERFINISHED
religiousContext pre-Islamic
status celebrated collection of pre-Islamic Arabic poems
studiedIn Islamic seminaries
classical Arabic curricula
modern Arabic literature programs
subjectMatter desert life
love and longing
moral reflection
tribal honor
war and valor
timeOfComposition 6th century CE
early 7th century CE

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Mu'allaqat hasAlternativeName The Hanging Odes