Jarīr

Jarīr

▪ Arab poet
in full  Jarīr ibn ʿAṭīyah ibn al-Khaṭafā  
born c. 650, Uthayfīyah, Yamāmah region, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]
died c. 729, Yamāmah

      one of the greatest Arab poets of the Umayyad period, whose career and poetry show the continued vitality of the pre-Islamic Bedouin tradition.

      Jarīr's special skill lay in poems insulting personal rivals or the enemies of his patrons. After sharp verbal clashes in Arabia in defense of Kulayb, his tribe, Jarīr moved to Iraq. There he won the favour of the governor, al-Ḥajjāj, and wrote a number of poems in his praise. He also met the poet al-Farazdaq (Farazdaq, al-), with whom he had already begun a battle of poems that is said to have lasted 40 years. The results were collected in the following century as naqāʾid (“slanging-matches on parallel themes”). The governor's goodwill earned Jarīr entry at the Umayyad court in Damascus. Jarīr was not able, however, to dislodge the poet al-Akhṭal from the esteem of the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik, and another poetic battle ensued, also producing naqāʾid. Of the caliphs who succeeded ʿAbd al-Malik, only the pious ʿUmar II seems to have favoured Jarīr, and much of Jarīr's life was spent away from court in his native Yamāmah.

      Many of Jarīr's poems are in the conventional qaṣīdah (“ode”) form. They typically open with an amatory prelude that is followed by invective and panegyric; the robust style of these later sections is frequently at odds with that of the prelude. Jarīr also wrote elegies, wisdom poetry, and epigrams.

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