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The Mu'allaqat
THE MU'ALLAQAT: The Seven Golden Odes (Qasidas) of Arabia (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. The Mu'allaqat is the title of a group of seven long Arabic odes or qasidas that have come down from the time before Islam. Each is considered the best work of these pre-Islamic poets. The name means 'The Suspended Qasidas' or 'The Hanging Poems', the traditional explanation being that these poems were hung on or in the Kaaba at Mecca. These famous ancient Arabic qasidas are formed of three parts: they start, with a nostalgic opening in which the poet reflects on what has passed, known as nasib. A common concept is the pursuit of the poet of the caravan of his...
The Arabic Qasida
THE ARABIC QASIDA An Anthology Translations & Introduction Paul Smith The qasida is a form of praise poetry that dates from pre-Islamic Arabia and was still composed by Sufi and other poets in Arabic up to today. Here is the largest anthology of this epic form of poetry in the Arabic language spanning 13 centuries. It sometimes runs to 50 couplets and one by Ibn al-Farid to more than 700. It was later inherited by the Persians, Turks, Afghans and Urdu Poets where it was developed by Sufi, court and tribal poets. The qasida resembles a ghazal in many ways except that it is longer. In the first couplet, both the lines rhyme, and the same rhyme runs through the whole poem, the rhyme-word being ...
Qasida and Creation
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The Vagaries of the Qaṣīdah
An investigation into the multiple versions (the textual tradition) of early Arabic poems which exist in various Abbasid collections. The role of the collector has been scrutinized with a view to determining his editorial involvement in the presentation of the text. It also revises long-cherished assumptions concerning the impact of Islam on early poetry (the literary-historical tradition) and demonstrates that poetry of both pre-Islamic and Islamic stamp co-existed and flourished during the reign of the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs. The practice of the pre-Islamic Qasidah is investigated in chapters two and three, with studies of desert fauna in chapter four and seafaring poetry and the Quran in chapter five. The book offers a corrective to many of the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically driven vision of the period.
Qasida and Creed
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Mufaḍḍalīyāt
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Qasida and Tanka
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