Abul Atahiya: His Life and Poetic Career

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Abul Atahiya: His Life and Poetic Career

Abul Atahiya His Life and Poetic Career

Abul Atahiya His Life and Poetic Career

Abul Atahiya: His Life and Poetic Career

Abul Atahiya (748-818 A D) was a great poet of the Abbasid Period. He took birth in Kufa to a very poverty-stricken family. His father was a cupper. Since his boyhood, he used to assist his father in his business. Then he went to Bagdad and there he by means of his poetic career, was able to draw the favour of Caliph Mehdi. After Mehdi, he got the favour of Harun al-Rashid. The caliph being pleased at his poetry blessed him with riches.

He was a very thoughtful poet. The influence of Islamic thought is present in his poetry.  His poetry is characterized by simplicity of style and deepness of thought. He wrote some better love poems in praise of Utba with whom he fell in love. But she consequently ignored his love and thus Atahiya failed to marry her. Since then he renounced composing love poems and began to write ascetic or philosophical poetry. The main themes of his poetry were the transient of human life, the hollowness of joys and pleasure, sorrow and sufferance. Through his poetry, he invoked people to devotional life and admonished them to live a better and honest life. He for the first time introduced simplicity of style and showed that poetry may take birth without the presence of traditional themes and thoughts. In his own time, he could not get a universal reputation but now-a-days he is recognized as a great poet because of the simplicity of style, spontaneity of thought, and artlessness of language contrasted with the labored artificiality of his contemporaries. He breathed his last in 818 A. D. 0 0 0.

Abul Atahiya His Life and Poetic Career

N. B. This article originally belongs to the book entitled ‘Gleaned Essays‘ by Menonimus.

 

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