Al-Jawahiri In A Statistic Research

Abstract

Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri (1898 – 1997) was born in Najaf city of Iraq, to a family of poets and traditional learning. His father, his two brothers, and many other members of his family were poets. He is considered the greatest poet in the history of Arab literature, and said to be the last Neoclassic Arab.This paper is a statistical study of Al- Jawahiri’s poetry. It shows the number of lines of each poem, the meters on which he composed them, and their percentage. It is the first statistic research ever conducted about an Arab poet. The conclusions are shown in a table in the end.