ARB 3901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Taghribat Bani Hilal, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Ibn Khaldun
17 Apr 2018
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Poetry suffered from excessive usage of ornamental language with no spirit and eloquence; became weak in vocabulary and in compound phrasings and original poetics: nevertheless, some poets did have exceptional qualities and an esthetic touch such as. Safieddine el-hilli, al-bussiri, al-shab zarif and al-baha" zuhair. The vast majority of poets were of mediocre quality. They demonstrated little scholarship and craftsmanship in writing and had bad taste. At times they used common and colloquial expressions, dirty words, and foul statements even telling jokes inside poems. Conditions were substandard for the healthy growth of poetry in the age of decline. The rulers and those in power were no arab, did not understand arabic, nor appreciated its eloquence and artistic output and had a taste for poetry. Tribal and regional sentiments that inspired arabs to make poetry all but receded as all arabs were under foreign domination and lacked.
