آداب الرافدين (Dec 1980)
From the effects of the Tatar invasion in the literature during the seventh and eighth centuries
Abstract
The years of the first half of the seventh century AH nearly ended, until a fierce black whirlwind blew in its way from the far east that uprooted every tree planted by the hands of good, and the eyes of faithful guards looked after it through centuries Many, it is the whirlwind of clutter that carried with it all the causes of devastation and destruction, and the flimsy dams could not stop them and their response, and the Caliph Al-Mustassim Billah is of little experience and management as described by historians - and he handed over the administration of his state to a man called Ibn Al-Alqami (d.656 AH), the minister who took over the ministry for fourteen years During which he weaved the most dangerous conspiracy orchestrated against the Arab nation, thinking that he was making abundant profit from it, and he did not know that he died in it. So what was from Hulaku (d.663 AD) except to go to the house of the caliphate, and sanctify it within a few thirty days, and kill the caliph, his children, his followers and many scholars and writers after gathering them under the pretext of his daughter’s marriage to the inattentive son of the Caliph, and he made the treasures of knowledge and literature and a fire, and a substance that supplies the waters of the Tigris with a color black. Historical references and sources have elaborated on the details of the massacres that took place, and those who want to investigate can refer to them, because our goal in this research is to clarify the reality of literature under it. The research was distributed on the study of systems and prose, and their historical and social value. In the study of systems, it dealt with the poetry that was said in caution and caution before the terrible catastrophe and massacre, and the poetry of grief and sorrow released by the poets after the attack of the invading Tatar armies, the destruction of cities, the killing of thousands, and the collapse of glory And the ancient glory, and finally human poetry, congratulations and the glorification of heroism after the defeat of the Tatars in the Levant. As for prose, I studied the letters and shrines that had a great impact on the hearts of Muslims, and a great role no less than that of poetry at the time.
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