was always fascinated by the mystical black cube with Quranic verses
embroidered with gold thread, which surrounded by masses of people. I learned
during my study that the Kaaba was built by prophet Abraham and was used
before Islam as a sacred place for different religions and hung on its walls the
best poems written on linen cloth with pure gold water called Mu’allaqat.
The most famous seven poems which remained in the memory of history until
they reached my memory and internal engraved until I came to the idea of a
installation work of a cube (3m x 3m x 3m) which is covered with black fabrics.
Above this, in the middle of three sides, three other black fabrics embroidered
with golden arabic letters are hanging from the top to the ground. These are
poems from pre-islamic times (Mu’allaqat) as they were then hanging on the
Ka’ba in Mecca. On the fourth side you can enter the cube.
The Mu‘allaqat is a group of seven long Arabic poems that are considered as the
best poetry of the pre-Islamic era. The name means The Suspended
Odes or The Hanging Poems. The traditional explanation is that these poems
were hung on or in the Ka’ba in Mecca. The name Mu‘allaqāt has also been
explained figuratively, as if the poems “hang” in the reader’s mind.
the Mu’allaqat are considered the primary source for early Arabic poetry.