Jahiliyyah poetry

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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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Jahiliyyah poetry canonical 5
Jahili poetry 1
Jahili poets 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic poetry
literary tradition
pre-Islamic literature
hasCanonicalCollection Asmaʿiyyat
linked to: Al-Asmaʿi

Mufaddaliyyat
Muʿallaqat
linked to: Mu'allaqat
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
linked to: Al-A‘sha

Al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Imruʼ al-Qays
linked to: Imru’ al-Qays

Labid ibn Rabiʿa
linked to: Labid ibn Rabi‘a

Tarafa ibn al-ʿAbd
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma
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
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 Qasidas (odes)
linked to: Jahiliyyah poetry
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma movement Jahiliyyah poetry
Al-‘Abid ibn al-Abras movement Jahiliyyah poetry
Tarafa ibn al-‘Abd movement Jahiliyyah poetry
Al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani movement Jahili poetry
linked to: Jahiliyyah poetry
Al-A‘sha movement Jahiliyyah poetry
Al-A‘sha associatedWith Jahili poets
linked to: Jahiliyyah poetry