Three Great Abbasid Poets: Abu Nuwas, al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri, Lives & Poems by Abu Nuwas & al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri

Author:Abu Nuwas & al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri [Nuwas, Abu]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: NEW HUMANITY BOOKS
Published: 2017-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

3. The laus duplex or ‘two-sided panegyric’ (al-madḥ, al-muwajjah), which may be compared to a garment having two surfaces of different colours but of equal beauty, as in the following verse addressed to Sayfu ‘l-Dawla:--

“Were all the lives thou hast ta’en possessed by thee,

Immortal thou and blest the world would be!”

Here Sayfu ‘l-Dawla is doubly eulogised by the mention of his triumphs over his enemies as well as of the joy which all his friends felt in the continuance of his life and fortune.

4. His manner of extolling his royal patron as though he were speaking to a friend and comrade, whereby he raises himself from the position of an ordinary encomiast to the same level with kings.

5. His division of ideas into parallel sentences:--

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