With Al-Mutanabbi

Author's name: Taha Hussein

A thousand years separated Al-Mutanabbi and Taha Hussein, but that didn't prevent the two great writers from being in each other's company. This book will be a resource for anyone who wishes to draw from the bounty that this close relationship has bestowed upon Arabic literature and its connoisseurs. The dean of Arabic literature began his journey with Al-Mutanabbi restless, unwilling to study him. But no sooner had he engaged in conversation with him or about him than he found himself strongly compelled to explore and analyze the depths of this unique poetic personality. He relied on the historical approach to criticism, interpreting Al-Mutanabbi's poetry through an examination of the stages of his life and the climates in which his creativity flourished. This study, in which the dean employed his customary skeptical approach, serves as a valuable poetic autobiography of the man who filled the world and occupied people.