![]() ![]() In the 19th-20th century Nahḍa, Neo-Classical, poets such as Aḥmad Shawqī, recouped the Abbasid master poets to both retroject and project a vision of an Arab-Islamic ‘Enlightenment’. The panegyric odes of poets such as Abū Tammām and al-Buḥturī were canonized so as to promote a vision of an Arab-Islamic Golden Age and, further, to serve as models for the expression of Arab-Islamic hegemony and the conferral and contestation of legitimate authority. ![]() Challenged to create a poetry that would serve as the linguistic correlative of the astounding and unprecedented might and dominion of the rulers of the Arab-Islamic state, the Abbasid Modernist Poets (al-shuʿarāʾ al-muḥdathūn) invented a powerfully and radically innovative poetic style, termed badīʿ. This study argues that the 3rd AH/ 9th CE century panegyrists (praise poets) of the Abbasid caliphal court at Baghdad (and briefly at Samarra) were responsible for constructing the image of a Golden Age of Arab-Islamic dominion that was subsequently adopted by the poets and thinkers of the 19th-20th century Nahḍa or ‘Arab Awakening’.
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