Dr. Mahbubur Rahman
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025 | ||
Received: 06.10.2025 | Accepted: 22.10.2025 | |||
Published Online: 31.10.2025 | Page No: 69-73 | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.01W.032 | ||||
The Muallaqa Poetry and Imru al Qays: A
Discussion
Dr. Mahbubur Rahman, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Arabic, Nabajyoti
College, Kalgachia, Assam, India | |
Al-Muallaqat is an outstanding collection of pre-Islamic
Arabic poetry. The word muallaqa is derived from the Arabic word “علق”
which means to hang. In the pre Islamic period the literary fair “Uqqaz” was
very famous in Arab. Poets from different corner of the Arabs gathered and
participated in a poetry recitation competition. In that era, persons with
special skills with poetic knowledge were appointed as judges. The poems that
the judges considered the best were written in golden letters and hung on the
walls of the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca. It was called Muallaqa. It is
said that the judges declared the poems of seven poets the best and the best
poems written by them were hung on the walls of the Kaaba. Therefore, the poems
of those seven poets together are called “المُعَلَقَاتِ السَّبْعَةُ”
or “Sabu Muallaqat”. | |
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