Mu'allaqat

Mu'allaqat

The Mu‘allaqāt (Arabic: المعلقات, ) is the title of a group of seven long Arabic poems or qasida (singular qaṣīda, plural qaṣā'id) 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 Odes or The Hanging Poems, the traditional explanation being that these poems were hung on or in the Ka'ba at Mecca.