EL-MÜTENEBBÃŽ'NİN ŞİİRİNDE MARAŞ

Year 2006, Volume: 8 Issue: 14, 159 - 185, 15.12.2006

Abdurrahman Özdemir

Abstract

Summary: al-Mutanabbî is a great poet who existed in the first half of fourth century ofHegira. He was born in 303/915 in Qûfa and noticed with his extraordinary intelligenceand ability of poetry. He took course from important savants in Qûfa. On the otherhand he walked around Damascus together his father and learned unmixed Arabic frombedouins in desert, and gained perfection in it. He had a narcissist character. AlthoughHis real name was Ahmad, he was famous with al-Mutanabbi (Assertor ofprophethood). This is an important evidence of his narcissist characteristic stucture. Heobtained the real fame after his making acquainted with The Hamdanid Ruler Sayf aldawla,and was well-known by his eulogies for that ruler. One of the eulogies intendedfor mentioned ruler is the poem that was subject for our article. The poem beingmentioned was composed on conquesting of Sayf al-dawla Mar'ash (A great city inTurkey).

Keywords

el-Mütenebbî, Seyfüddevle, Maraş, Türkiye, Kûfe, Şiir

Mar'ash in The Poetry of al-Mutanabbi

Abstract

al-Mutanabbî is a great poet who existed in the first half of fourth
century ofHegira. He was born in 303/915 in Qûfa and noticed with his
extraordinary intelligenceand ability of poetry. He took course from
important savants in Qûfa. On the otherhand he walked around Damascus
together his father and learned unmixed Arabic frombedouins in desert,
and gained perfection in it. He had a narcissist character. AlthoughHis
real name was Ahmad, he was famous with al-Mutanabbi (Assertor
ofprophethood). This is an important evidence of his narcissist
characteristic stucture. Heobtained the real fame after his making
acquainted with The Hamdanid Ruler Sayf aldawla,and was well-known by
his eulogies for that ruler. One of the eulogies intendedfor mentioned
ruler is the poem that was subject for our article. The poem
beingmentioned was composed on conquesting of Sayf al-dawla Mar'ash (A
great city inTurkey).

Keywords

al-Mutanabbi, Sayf al-dawla, Mar‘ash, Turkey, Qûfa, Poem