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Arabian Poetry: Introduction: II.—The Mu‘alla...

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a lament for the departure of a fair one, and a description of her personal charms; passing abruptly to an account of the noble qualities of the poet's horse or camel, or a eulogium on his tribe, and his own prowess in battle—judgment was impartially passed on their respective merits; and those poems which were considered as most excellent were afterwards written upon silk, in characters of gold, and hung up in the Temple—hence, it has been supposed, they were called Mu‘allaqāt, or "Suspended,"…

Arabian Poetry: Introduction: II.—The Mu‘alla...

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