The Elegy of Abi AL-Abbas Ahmad Bin Abd AL-Salaam AL-Jarrawi AL-Maliqi (906H) to AL-Hussein Bin Ali (They may Allah be pleased and have Mercy upon them) An Analytical Study

Abstract

The present paper attempts to study and analyze this poem. The poem is one of AL-Jarrawi,s long poems; it contains (62) lines. Apart from other preceding poets, the poet halved the lines of the poem, and made them pentomic. In this sense, he deviated from the well-known standards of such an art at that time; it was known for the poets to use three halves of their own and two halves as pentomic conclusion usually quoted from other poets. In his deviant attempt, the poet used four halves of his own and a pentomic half taken from the Omru, AL-Qais. AL-Jarrawi organized his poem in accordance with the structure of the Arabic-western dictionary that is identical with the eastern one except the letter (ز) (z) and the following letters, where the two dictionaries become different in order.As for the content, the poem focuses basically on the elegy to Al-Hussein (He may Allah be pleased and have Mercy upon him); and hence, the personality of Al-Hussein is the focus of the poem from which the poet proceeds.