Imrou\' L Qays

Imrou' L Qays , writes also Imrou Oul Qaïs , Imrû' l-Qays , Imru' Al-Qays (), is the most known poet of the time of the Jahiliya. Its most known poem appears among the Mu' allaqât, which are poems of the pre-Islamic period.

Biography

Imrou' L Qays lived from 500 to approximately 540. It is at the same time a large Arab poet, whom one says to have invented the Qasideh, and the son of Houjr el-Kindi, last king of the kingdom of Kinda.

It composes of the poems as of its more young age, but the tone of its texts irritates his/her father, who drives out it. During this exile, his/her father is assassinated by the Beni Asad. Imrou' L Qays manages to avenge it, but must take refuge in the chief of the tribe of the Iyyad. Then begin a vacuum of wandering and begging, which is worth to him the nickname of El Malik ED-Dillil (“the king always wandering”).

He also remains with Byzance, near Justinien Large the, surely with an aim of obtaining a support to restore the kingdom. But, arrived at Anqara, he dies of a species of variola; he would have been poisoned by a woven wool tunic of gold sent by Justinien, either because his/her daughter had fallen in love with the poet, or because the emperor feared a treachery after having granted his assistance.

Extract

The poem included in Mu' allaqât, translates by Jacques Berque, thus finishes, on a scene of storm: … The Thabîr mount, when touched it boor of the downpour an air of lord had who drapes himself in its striped coat Similar tomorrow morning will be the summit of Mujaymar with the rotation of a spindle and similar with wild onion bulbs drowned lions this night in the surfaces remote will be projected in the desert of Ghabît' like one going of Yemen its shoddy goods discharge.

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