This book review presents Margaret Larkin’s work, Al-Mutanabbī: Voice of the Abbasid Poetic Ideal. The work is a belles-lettres critique literary genre, poetry Al-Mutanabbī, which discusses function in ideal. Larkin's interpretation history, particularly medieval Islamic reveals significance contextualizing poetic activity 10th century court authority, as it disseminated media power and has an ...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...