Abu al-Atahiya
Abu l-Atahiya ( Arabic أبو العتاهية; born in 748 in Kufa or Ain al-Tamur ; died 825 or 826 in Baghdad ) was the first Arab poet to break away from traditional pre-Islamic Bedouin poetry and use a simpler and freer vernacular .
Life
Abu l-Atahiya comes from a family of mawlās , poor non -Arabs who traded with the Anaiza tribe . The family's poverty prevented Abu al-Atahiya from receiving an education, which may explain his original and unconventional poetry style. In his early years in Kufa, he began to write ghazeles , which later made him famous and gained the favor of the Abbasid caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd . Abu l-Atahiya's fame, however, was based on the ascetic poems of his later years, the zuhdiyat , collected in 1071 by the Andalusian scholar Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr . The zuhdiyat deal with the equality of rich and poor before the face of death, they found an enthusiastic following among the common people, but were also popular at court and were often set to music.
literature
- Oskar Rescher : The Divan of Abu'l-'Atahija: Part I (everything that has appeared) the Zuhdijjat (ie the religious poems). New printer of the Stuttgart edition 1928. The Qasids of Abu'l-Aswad ad-Du'ali. New publisher of Greifswald 1914. With two appendices. Biblio, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3764810661 .
Web links
- Oskar Rescher: Der Dîwân des Abû 'l-ʿAtâhija: translated from Arabic after Beyrouth's print in 1909. Part 1. The zuhdijjât (ie. The religious poems) . Electronic edition (PDF), University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Abū al-ʿAtāhiyah. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed April 21, 2018 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu al-Atahiya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abu'l-'Atahija |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arab poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kufa or Ain al-Tamur |
| DATE OF DEATH | 825 or 826 |
| Place of death | Baghdad |