Aspiring poet

In this novel, the poet Ali Al-Jarim narrates to us the biography of the aspiring poet Abu Al-Tayeb Al-Mutanabbi, and the machinations that his opponents in Aleppo planned for him, which caused a rift between him and Saif Al-Dawla Al-Hamdani, the Emir of Aleppo, after years of affection. Al-Mutanabbi was forced to flee from Aleppo to Damascus, and did not stay long. He stayed in the Levant, until he traveled to Egypt after Kafur al-Ikhshidid summoned him and tempted him with the rule to whi...