Poets at the Court of Sayf Al-Dawla Al-Hamadani

The article researches poetry life at the court of Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamadani, who was the Emir of Aleppo. The ruler encouraged the development of literature, and the most opulent court of the Emir of Aleppo in the Middle East attracted poets, writers and scholars from all over the Arab world. The cohort of the most famous poets at the court of Sayf al-Dawla included al-Mutanabbi, Abu Firas al-Hamadani, Abu al-Abbas al-Nami, al-Sanawbari and others. Al-Mutanabbi was the most famous poet of this period. The poet was imbued with a special love for the Bedouin character and improved his knowledge of the Arabic classical language. Abu Firas is well-known by his “Byzantine verses” or “Rumiyat”. Al-Sanawbari was famous for his poems, in which he sang of the cities of Aleppo and Raqqa, where the residences of Sayf al-Dawla were located. A Persian by origin, Kashajim also found himself at the court of Sayf al-Dawla as a court poet. Kashajim wrote traditional panegyrics, laments, hamriyat, he also often turned to descriptions of nature in his work. Sayf al-Dawla surrounded himself not only with talented poets, but also with outstanding intellectuals of his time, among whom was, for example, the most famous philosopher of his time, al-Farabi.