آداب الرافدين (Oct 1976)
The Lamiya of al-Murtada al-Shahrizuri: Text from the poetry of scholars and Sufis
Abstract
The severity of my crises had shattered the town This verse is the beginning of the poem known in our literary heritage (Al-Munfarajah). It was composed by Abu Al-Fadl Yusef bin Muhammad, who is known as Ibn Al-Nahawi (d.513 AH), and scholars have doubted that it was attributed to him (1). And it seems to me that they have taken it for granted because of its technical formulation that does not suit its scientific status, which prevents confidence in attributing an excellent poem to a similar one from the non-poet class, and this is an entrance by which I want to reach the position of critics regarding the poetry of scholars in general, and I am trying to study a poem of one of them Ibn Khaldun mentioned that a deliberation took place between two prominent Marinid statesmen in which one of them sang the words of Ibn al-Nahawi: I did not know when it stood in the ruins, what is the difference between its new and the worn out? And he neglected his attribution to him, so the other took the initiative to say: This is the poetry of a jurist, and he saw in it: (What is the difference) a doctrinal phrase, not one of the methods of Arab speech, and this is the second entry to the position of the critics as well regarding that abundant poetry with which books of literature, history and lectures were filled, other than Attributing to this or that of the famous poets who took on us the ends of our literary studies, completely or almost completely, even if one of them attributed my moment of interest to the fullest share of those who fall under the influence of the sparkle and the deviation of the critical sayings that attributed our poets to classes, and the classes were singled out with literary images, Its destinies vary, and the nature of literature and art differs in clear differences.
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