Al-Mutanabbi joined the court of in 948 | During his stay in Aleppo, great rivalry occurred between Al-Mutanabbi and many scholars and poets in Sayf al-Dawla's court, one of those poets was , Sayf al-Dawla's cousin |
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Ibn Rachik reported that when al-Mutanabbi had the chance to flee, the attackers recited some of the bold verses he wrote relating to courage, and he was forced to live up to them; he fought, and died along with his companions in 965 | Al-Mutanabbi had great pride in himself through his poetry |
The latter part of this period was clouded with intrigues and jealousies that culminated in al-Mutanabbi's leaving of Syria for Egypt, then ruled in name by the.
26His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time | He began to write panegyrics in the tradition established by the poets and |
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The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture | Al-Mutanabbi realized that his hopes of becoming a were not going to be materialized and he left in c |
He started writing poetry when he was nine years old.
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