Al-Harith ibn Hilliza al-Yashkuri

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Al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza al-Yashkurī (

Arabian poet of the tribe of Bakr, from the 5th century. He was the author of one of the seven famous pre-Islamic poems known as the Mu'allaqat. Little is known of the details of his life.[1]

The story of the mu'allaqa which al-Harith composed is as follows.

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in southern Iraq. Ibn Kulthum pleaded the Taghlib's cause by reciting the sixth of the mu'allaqāt. A quarrel then broke out between Ibn Kulthum and al-Nu'man, the Bakr spokesman, as a result of which the king dismissed them both and asked al-Harith to act as spokesman for the Bakr tribe instead of al-Nu'man. Whereupon, al-Harith recited the seventh mu'allaqa. It is said that al-Harith was an old man by this time, and afflicted with leprosy, so that he was required to recite his poem from behind a curtain. He is said to have been of noble birth and a warrior.

Although the mu'allaqa is mostly a plea, interspersed with flattery of King Amr, it begins conventionally in the usual style of a qasida with a brief section of regret for a lost love and a description of a flight by camel. The metre is khafīf.

Of al-Harith's other poems only a few fragments remain.[4]

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza ul-Yashkurī" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 953.
  2. ^ Blunt, A. & Blunt, W. (1903) The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, pp. 37, 44.
  3. ^ Arberry, A.J. (1957). The Seven Odes, pp. 213-216.
  4. ^ Arberry, A.J. (1957) The Seven Odes, p. 211.

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