Description
A novel about Al-Mutanabbi, the man of great dreams, recounting his life in a descriptive, scenic style narrated in the first person. It is divided into seven significant stages: First, his upbringing and education at the local school; second, the misfortunes of time, the revolution, and his claim to prophethood; third, his imprisonment, the suffering he endured there, and the self-reflection he undertook; fourth, his emergence into the world and return to Kufa; fifth, his time with Sayf al-Dawla, the Aleppo Citadel, and his battles against the Byzantines in defense of the northern borders of the disintegrating Islamic state; sixth, his time with Kafur al-Ikhshidi, including his Egyptian period, his time in Cairo and along the Nile, and the forced residence imposed upon him by Kafur; and seventh, his final days in Persia, under the Buyids and Ibn al-Amid, and the spiritual and psychological alienation he experienced there, his attempt to return home, to his dream, and his death before reaching that homeland and that dream.
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