Poetry of war in the era of Bani Ayoub

Abstract

Many researchers examined the poetry of war among Arabs, studying and analyzing, and one of them said, after studying war poetry from the first era of illiteracy to the middle of the fourth century of migration: “I hope that I will be able to find a study of literature of Arab enthusiasm, and write about the era of Salahuddin Al Ayyubi and the Crusaders, And I live with this hope, as I hope from the literary scholars to study this face of war in the poetry of war, as he affixed poems to them and uttered their truth in all their ages, in the enchantment of their beginnings and the fields of their civilizations. Its eternal glory and pride. Violent battles and bloody clashes have erupted between Muslims and the Crusaders on the Levant and Egypt since the year 492 AH, the year in which the West panicked into the Levantine coasts, and then he drove through the lands, killed thousands, and occupied the major cities, especially Jerusalem. Zinks had an honorable and prominent role in repelling them vigorously, fighting them hard, and fighting them by all means. Standing poets stood beside their commanding Ashawis and their illiterate knights, praising their heroics, and praising their victories, and boasting of their strikes, such as Ibn Al-Dahhan Al-Mawsali, Ibn Munir Al-Trabulsi, Muhammad bin Nasr Al-Qaisrani, and Imad Al-Din Al-Isfahani who needed Nour Al-Din Mahmoud bin Zangi, and arranged for him quartets, asking him And, on his tongue, to seek in front of the soldiers to inflame emotions, stir emotions, and mobilize into jihad, a new phenomenon in Arab poetry.

Keywords

• struggle
• jihad
• islamic wars
• conquests