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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Jahiliyyah poetry canonical 5
Jahili poetry 1
Jahili poets 1

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Statements (53)

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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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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