Amr ibn Kulthum Ibn Malik Ibn A`tab Abu Al-Aswad al-Taghlibi (... - 584), from the tribe of Taghlib, was born in Rabe`aa, north of the Arabian-Lands. He was a pre-Islamic Arabic poet. His mother was Layla bint Al-Muhalhel. One of his well-known poems is his Muallaqah which he wrote in anger at Amr ibn Hind for insulting his mother and tribe. The poem apparently once exceeded a thousand verses but only a hundred verses have survived. These few verses describe his actions, courage and life. While he was young he took over as the chief of the Taghlibi tribe in what is now Iraq. Events The Visigoths conquer the Suevi kingdom in Spain. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( (help· info)), submission (to the will of God)) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language, but the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity. ... The Muallaqāt (Arabic المعلقات) is the title of a group of seven long Arabic poems or qasida that have come down from the time before Islam. ...

In his Kitab al-Aghani ("Book of Songs"), from the 10th century, the scholar Abu al-Faraj includes some stories about ibn Kulthum's life, and how he killed Amr ibn Hind, king of the Lakhmids. According to legend, ibn Kulthum died of excessive wine-drinking. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ... Abulfaraj, also known as Abu-l-Faraj or `Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isbahani, (897-967) was an Arab scholar, a member of the tribe of the Quraysh and a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II. He was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in... The Lakhmids (Arabic: ) or Muntherids (Arabic: ) were a group of Arab Christians who lived in Southren Iraq, and made al-Hirah which was a fabulous city with many castles and bath-houses and Palm gardens their capital in (266 AD). ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ...

The Killing Of A King

The King of Heraa Amr Bin Hind said one day to his drinking companions : " Do You Know Someone Of Us Arabs Whose Mother Declines Serving My Mother " They Replied : " Yes, Amr ibn Kulthum. " The King Asked : "Why is that ?" Then his Companions replied : "Because her father is Muhalhel Bin Rabe`aah, her uncle is Kolaib Waeil a prestigious Arabian, her spouse is Kulthum Bin Malik Bin Etaban astounding knight of us Arabs and her son is Amr ibn Kulthum chief of his clan." after that the king sent for Amr ibn Kulthum asking him to visit along with his mother layla, he accepted his invitation and visited him with his companions and his mother after they arrived and while layla was sitting with the mother of the king (She is Hind the aunt of Imru' al-Qais) Hind asked her to pass the plate, to which layla replied: "let the one in need go to her need" and when Hind insisted on her layla shouted saying: "What a Humiliation ye Taghlibi", her son heard her and was deeply stirred by the insult that he took his sword and decapitated the King Of Heraa and killed his guards then left with his companions taking the king`s treasures with him he recited the following lines while he was on his way to Bilad al-Sham in his poem: For the Saudi Arabian town, see Layla, Ar Riyad. ... For the Saudi Arabian town, see Layla, Ar Riyad. ... The word Hind can refer to: A female deer, usually the red deer. ... Ameru al-Qays, or Imruu al Quais, Ibn Hujr, was an Arabian poet of the 6th century, the author of one of the Muallaqat, an anthology of pre-Islamic Arabic literature. ... The word Hind can refer to: A female deer, usually the red deer. ... For the Saudi Arabian town, see Layla, Ar Riyad. ... Bilad al-Sham was the traditional Arab name for the region that today contains Syria, Jordan, Israel/Palestine. ...

بأيَّ مشـيةٍ عـمرو بن هندٍ *** تطيع بنا الوشاة وتزدرينا

تهـددنـا وأوعِدنا رويـداً *** متى كـنـا لأمـك مـقـتـوينا

The Muallaqah

He starts the poem mentioning wine and its effects. Then he describes Layla, and speaks of Amr Bin Hind and his family, then he ends it with words of pride in his own family.

His Works

He has only four poems that have survived:

• ALA HOBEY BESAHNEK FASBAHINA ( The Muallaqah ) [1]
• AAGMA` SOHBATY [2]
• ALA MIN MOBALGHA [3]
• EN NASRKOM GHADA [4]

External links

• Poem Text & Audio (in Arabic)