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Moallakat
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Moallakat: see Muallaqat Muallaqat , Pre-Islamic Arabic anthology compiled by the scholar Hammad al Rawiya (d. c.775). comprised of poems that were written in gold letters and hung on the walls of the Kaaba in Mecca during annual fairs.
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The audience was also briefed on the salient features of the Mu'allaqat - the hung poems, so named because they were hung on or in the holy Ka'aba of ancient times.
Known as the Mu'allaqat (the Suspended Ones), they were the optimal poems, hung for all to see at a great fair which was held annually at 'Ukaz.
 
 
 
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