Talk:Mu'allaqat

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Please see User:DanielCD/Muallaqat for a much longer draft of this article taken from 1911 EB. --DanielCD 16:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * This article on the Mu'alaqat adopts the orthodox view that does not question authonticity of these poems and does not critically analyze the claim that these poems were written in pre-Islamic era.


 * for more on the critical analysis of these poems, see the book "Fee Al Shi'r Al Jahili" (=On pre-Islamic Poetry) by Taha_Hussein

--Thameen 15:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree that this article accepts the "orthodox" view and does not critically examine the poems. That said, I understand that at least some of the claims of Taha Hussein, were in turn based on the views on of David Samuel Margoliouth,  who published an article entitled "The Origins Of Arabic Poetry" in Journal Of The Royal Asiatic Society, 1925, pp. 417-449.  Both referred to Ahlwardt who had published the critical Arabic edition of the poems.  All of these claims were scrutinized by Arthur John Arberry in The Seven Odes: The First Chapter In Arabic Literature, 1957, Allen & Unwin: London.  A more recent analysis is given by M. Zwettler, The Oral Tradition Of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character & Implications, 1978, Ohio State University Press.  Another interesting argument can be found in the writings of Louis Cheikho, who asserted that some of the poets may have been Christian in his Kitāb shuʻara' al-Naṣrānīyah. Beirut: Matba`atu l-Aba'i l-Mursalina l-Yasu`iyyun, 1890.  This was in turn criticized by Hechame Camille in his work Louis Cheikho et son livre le Christianisme et la Littérature Chrétienne en Arabie avant l'Islam: Etude Critique. Beirut: Dar el-Machreq, 1967.I don;t have time to work on this article right now, but I do think it could be expanded to include this discussion. Jemiljan (talk) 00:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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The entire article is problematic and almost entirely without sources, but lines such as "This cautious scholar is unquestionably right in rejecting a story so utterly unauthenticated." are particularly egregious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.244.191 (talk) 05:58, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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This article is written like a Wikipedia source rather than a Wikipedia article. Moaz786 (talk) 03:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)