Authors

• Mohsen Mohammadi ¹
• Aliasghar Ghahramani Mogbel ²

¹ Ph.D Student in Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

² Aliasghar Ghahramani Mogbel, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. E-mail: a_ghahramani@sbu.ac.ir

Abstract

Bacchic poetry has been one of the important themes of poetry in different periods of the history of Arabic literature, which took an independent form from the middle of the second century with the emergence of great poets such as Bashshar Ibn Bord, Ab,ū Nowās, etc., but these poets did not deviate much from the approach of Jāheli poets in Wine poem, and paid more attention to the material and external aspects of wine, and wrote poems describing the cup, the bartender, the companion, etc.
One of the turning points of Wine poetry in the first Abbasi era was the emergence of Sufi Wine poems, which was prominently expressed in the poems of Hossein Ibn Zahhak, the poet of the first Abbasi era; A poet who, despite being antinomianism in his poetic expression, was able to create a beautiful connection between Wine and Sufi images with special skill and mastery, and took advantage of Sufi mysteries in Wine.
Examining this poetic feature by combining descriptive and analytical methods is the subject of this article. The results of the research indicate that Hossein Ibn Zahhak, when Wine still had a sensual and material theme, gave it a Sufi concept and connected it with sacred and spiritual themes. In fact, the first signs of Sufism in poetry first appeared in the poems of Hossein Ibn Zahhak, and then he was able to influence Sufis such as Mansūr Hallaj, and it even seems that poets such as Irāqi, Rumi, Hāfez, Jāmi, etc. were also influenced by him.

Keywords

• Keywords: Hossein Ibn Zahhak
• Abbasi Poetry
• Bacchic Poetry of Sufis
• Innovation