Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab (Arabic: جمهرة أشعار العرب; The Gathering of the Arabs' Verses) is an early Arabic poetry anthology by Abu Zayd al-Qurashi [ar]. The date of publication is unknown, and al-Qurashi is supposed by various scholars to have lived in the 8th,[1] 9th[2] or 10th centuries.[3] It contains seven sections, each containing seven qasidas.[2]
The first section consists of the seven Mu'allaqat.[2] The anthology is the first source to use the name Mu'allaqat; earlier writers describe the poems simply as "the Seven."[6] Al-Qurashi's choice of poems is somewhat idiosyncratic, as he includes Al-Nabigha and Al-A'sha among the seven and excludes Antarah ibn Shaddad and Al-Harith.[7]
The second section is called "al-Mujamharat" ("the assembled").[8] It contains poems by Abid ibn al-Abras [ar], Adi ibn Zayd, Bashar bin Abi Khazm al-Asadi [ar], Umayya bin Abi al-Salat [ar], Khadash bin Zuhair [ar], Al-Namar bin Tulab [ar], and Antarah ibn Shaddad.
The fifth section contains elegies, and the sixth, "al-Mashubat", contains "testimonies of faith mingled with heresy".[11] One of the Mashubat is by Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, famous for reciting the poem in question in front of Muhammad.
The final section, "al-Mulhamat", is ambiguous in meaning but probably means that the poems refer to bloody fights or struggles.[12] Represented poets include Al-Farazdaq and Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi.
References
^Emran El-Badawi (17 December 2013). The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN978-1-317-92933-8.
^ abcOrfali, Bilal (1 January 2012). "A Sketch Map of Arabic Poetry Anthologies up to the Fall of Baghdad". Journal of Arabic Literature. 43 (1): 39. doi:10.1163/157006412X629737.
^Shady Nasser, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh, pg. 210. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. ISBN9789004241794
^El Tayib, Abdullah (1983). "Pre-Islamic Poetry". In A. F. L. Beeston; T. M. Johnstone; R. B. Serjeant; G. R. Smith (eds.). Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Cambridge University Press. pp. 111–112. ISBN0521240158.
^Mustafa, Ezzedin Ibrahim (1963). The Methods and Techniques of the Early Arab Anthologists (PhD). University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. p. 119. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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