The obsession with greatness in Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry

Abstract

Most of those who have studied the poetry of Al-Mutanabbî are unanimous on the traits characterizing his work imbued with strength and vitality which reflect a feeling of grandeur. This aspect encourages us to know the secret of this force and excess of grandeur and to identify the means by which it is expressed and to what extent can we consider this as a stylistic phenomenon? This study is one approach by which I have attempted to provide answers to such questions.