Jahiliyyah poetry

E1022025

Arabic poetry literary tradition pre-Islamic literature

Jahiliyyah poetry is the corpus of pre-Islamic Arabic verse characterized by elaborate odes, vivid desert imagery, and themes of honor, love, and tribal valor.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Qasidas (odes)	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arabic poetry ⓘ literary tradition ⓘ pre-Islamic literature ⓘ
hasCanonicalCollection	Asmaʿiyyat NERFINISHED ⓘ Mufaddaliyyat NERFINISHED ⓘ Muʿallaqat NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	boasting (fakhr) ⓘ elaborate odes ⓘ elegy (rithaʼ) ⓘ monorhyme structure ⓘ praise (madih) ⓘ satire (hijaʼ) ⓘ strict quantitative meter ⓘ themes of honor ⓘ themes of love ⓘ themes of tribal valor ⓘ tribal themes ⓘ vivid desert imagery ⓘ
hasCulturalContext	Bedouin tribal society ⓘ
hasForm	ode ⓘ
hasGenre	qasida ⓘ
hasLanguage	Arabic ⓘ
hasMeterSystem	al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi’s prosodic system (later codification) ⓘ
hasNotablePoet	Al-Aʿsha NERFINISHED ⓘ Al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani NERFINISHED ⓘ Antarah ibn Shaddad NERFINISHED ⓘ Imruʼ al-Qays NERFINISHED ⓘ Labid ibn Rabiʿa NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarafa ibn al-ʿAbd NERFINISHED ⓘ Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSocialFunction	entertainment at tribal gatherings ⓘ preservation of genealogy ⓘ recording tribal battles ⓘ tribal self-assertion ⓘ vehicle of moral and practical wisdom ⓘ
hasStructure	fakhr (boasting section) ⓘ hikma (gnomic wisdom) ⓘ nasib (amatory prelude) ⓘ rahil (desert journey section) ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	pre-Islamic era ⓘ
hasTransmissionMode	oral tradition ⓘ
influenced	Arabic literary criticism ⓘ Arabic rhetorical theory ⓘ classical Arabic poetry ⓘ early Islamic poetry ⓘ
isStudiedIn	Arabic literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic studies ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ
precedes	Islamic Arabic poetry ⓘ
usesImagery	camels ⓘ desert storms ⓘ ruined campsite (atlal) ⓘ wild animals ⓘ

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Imru' al-Qais → movement → Jahiliyyah poetry ⓘ

Rudaki → notableWork → Jahiliyyah poetry ⓘ

this entity surface form: Qasidas (odes)