Abu–Ala-al–Marri: His Life and Poetic Career
Abu–Ala-al–Marri
Abu–Ala-al–Marri: His Life and Poetic Career
Life Sketch: Abul-Ala al-Ma’arri (973- 1057 A D) was an Arabic poet, philosopher, and a man of letters. He was born in 973 A. D. at Marratun in Syria. In his childhood, he was attacked by smallpox, and resultantly he got blindness. Though he was blind he bore a sharp brain and an extraordinary power of memory. He began his education at home under his father and then he went to Aleppo for higher education. There he began his poetic career. He wrote that he never eulogized anyone with the hope of gaining a reward but only for the sake of practicing his skill. Then he returned to his home city and began lecturing on poetry, antiquities and philology. After some years he went to Bagdad, the nucleus of Islamic culture and education and met with many scholars, poets and philosophers of his time. But he returned to his home after spending one and half years in Bagdad on the occasion that his mother was ill. After his mother’s death, he chose a life of seclusion and adopted a vegetarian diet. He died in 1057 A D.
Poetic Career: He was a philosophical poet. Though he belonged to the religion of Islam and lived a moral and honest life, yet he was scrupulous regarding some beliefs of Islam. The poetry that he composed in his earlier life was compiled under the title ‘Sadkatul Zand’. In this anthology of poetry, he followed the tradition of his predecessors. But his later poems bear the stamp of his originality both in style and philosophy. His later poems are collected in the anthology entitled ‘Luzumiyyat’. In his poetry, he reflected almost all the aspects of his times including the degeneracy and corruption of the tyrannous rulers, venial judges and hypocritical theologians. As a poet, his place may not be with the great poet of his time but as a philosophic poet, his place is after none. 0 0 0.
Abu–Ala-al–Marri
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