The Mu‘allaqāt Flashcards
The Muallaqat is a collection of — pre-Islamic qaṣīdas
(albeit compiled in the –th century C.E.) which were widely regarded as the best of their kind.
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The story behind the supposed derivation of the term Mu‘allaqa – namely that they used to be ------------------------ as a mark of esteem – is probably nothing more than a legend.
hung on the Ka‘ba
The black knight is?
‘Antara
The playboy is?
Tarafa
The moralist is?
Zuhayr
the centenarian is?
Labid
The regicide is?
‘Amr b. Kulthum
The Wandering king is?
Imru’ al-Qays
“the leper” is?
al-Harith b. Hilliza
Imru-l-Qays ibn Ḥujr (d. circa 550) was a prince of the —— tribe.
He is generally regarded as one of the most ———- Arab poets of the pre-Islamic period.
Kinda
outstanding
Imru al Qays was known for his excessive dedication to lewd ——— parties and scandalous pursuit of ——–
drinking
women
Legend has it that following his father’s death at the hands of the Banī ———, Imru-l-Qays put aside the pursuit of youthful pleasures and devoted his life to ———————, a mission that led him to seek the aid of the ———– emperor, ———, on whose command Imru-l-Qays was later ———– as punishment for seducing the emperor’s daughter or a woman in the emperor’s
court.
Asad avenging his father Byzantine Justinian poisoned
However, most historians downplay the likelihood of this
account, in favor of the story that Imru’ al-Qais actually died from a —————-, a disease which he mentioned in one of his poems. He died and was buried in ————-.
chronic skin disease
Analotia, Turkey
Imru-l-Qays’s fame rests chiefly on his ———–.
Mu‘allaqa
Though the opening section of this qaṣīda is often
regarded as the archetypal ——–, the poem as a whole
departs in a number of ——– from the ———–
pattern.
nasīb
respects
standard