Title: The seven Mu‘allaqāt
Description: [with the commentary of al-Zūzanī. To which are added a number of other poems, namely : (1) a Kasidah by al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī, with a commentary by ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Wāḥidī ; (2) al-Qaṣāʾid al-ʿalawīyāt, seven poems in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Caliph ʿAlī, by Ibn Abi al-Ḥadīd, with a commentary by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀmilī ; (3) a Kasidah by al-Farazdaq ; (4) a Kasidah by Taubah ibn Ḥimyar ; (5) al-Burdah, a Kasidah in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, by al-Būṣīrī, with a commentary by Abu Shāmah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ismāʿīl ; (6) a Kasidah by ʿAmīd al-Dīn Asʿad ; (7) a Kasidah by Imruʾ al-Qays ; (8) al-Qaṣīdah al-mudhahhabah, a poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Caliph ʿAlī, by Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥimyarī ; accompanied by an extract in Persian relating to the author and his poem, from the Majālis al-muʾminīn of Nūr Allāh Shūshtarī ; (9) al-Qaṣīdah al-ṭanṭarānīyah, a poem in praise of the Vizier Niẓām al-Mulk by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṭanṭarānī, erroneously attributed to Rashīd Waṭwāṭ ; (10) Lāmīyat al-ʿarab, a poem by al-Shanfara, with anonymous glosses ; (11) Lāmīyat al-ʿajam, a poem by al-Ṭughrāʾī, with anonymous glosses ; (12) al-Khamrīyah, a Kasidah by Ibn al-Fāriḍ, followed by another poem by the same author ; (13) Durar al-laʾālī, a poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, the Caliph ʿAlī and his wife Fāṭimah, by Muḥammad Kāẓim al-Azdī.].
Subjects: Poetry, Arabic poetry, Muʻallaqāt
People: Nābighah al-Dhubyānī (active 6th century), Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Hibat Allāh (1191-1257 or 1258), Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī (1213?-1296?), Muḥammad Prophet (-632), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph (approximately 600-661), Fāṭimah (-632 or 633), Niẓām al-Mulk (1018-1092)