Fakhreddine examines a phase in the Arabic poetic tradition that is both revolutionary in its achievements and distinct in its poets’ consciousness of themselves as creators of something new.
Though literary critics acknowledge the significance of the Abbasid experience, she says, they often leave it out of the discussion of modern poetry in the 20th century. She believes it is very
important to make the link between the muhdathum, and the Arabic modernist project, to bring Abbasid poets such as Abu Tammam, Ibn al-Rumi, al-Huhturi, and certainly the later al-Mutanabbi into
the discussion of Arabic poetry and its directions today. The study served as her 2011 PhD dissertation at Indiana University-Bloomington. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR
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