Book Title | The Seven Odes 2 |
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The seven odes -some notes on the compilation of the MU’ALLAKÄT
THE SEVEN ODES
The meaning of the word mu’allaqåt by which the Seven Jähili Odes were entitled by some transmitters and commentators has been discussed at length by scholars and several suggestions have been put forward for the interpretation of this word
The story that the Odes were suspended in the Ka’ba has been rejected by the majority of the scholars, but they have almost unanimously agreed, although With some reservations, that ” the man responsible in the first instance for selecting the seven poems and making them into a separate anthology was a certain Harnmäd, called al—Räwiya (the Transmitter) ” This statement is indeed based on reports of early authorities who described the literary activity of Hammäd under Yazid b. Abd al-Malik and Hisham b. ‘Abd al-Malik and record the tradition told on the authority
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