Historical references (historical events) in the collection of the poet, the scholar Muhammad Bahjat Al-Athari (d. 1416 AH / 1996 AD)

Abstract

Through this study, we seek to uncover and trace the references - historical (heritage) events - in the experience of the poet, scholar Muhammad Bahjat Al-Athari, as poetry often relies on history in its interpretation of historical events. Poetry has a role in revealing the details of those historical events and documenting them, and this shows the extent of the relationship. The close relationship between poetry and history, as poetry reflects human history and the intellectual aspects and human feelings it contains that reveal the way man deals with his environment and society.

The poet Muhammad Bahjat Al-Athri conjured various events from distant eras, linked them to the events of his contemporary time, employed them in his poetry, and made them his proof, interacting with his poetic experience.

Evoking historical events - such as historical references from the days of the Arabs in the pre-Islamic era, Islamic conquests, and contemporary wars - has become a necessary matter in contemporary literary texts and a prominent feature of them. In it, poets found what they wanted to express what was burning in their hearts, and what artistic and aesthetic values were hidden in their poetry, and poets understood the importance of Historical issues are among the expressive means that poets resort to to break the stagnation and imitation that has afflicted Arabic poetry and to try to modernize it. They have contributed to the maturity and formation of a poet’s vision towards his homeland and nation and its crises and have helped the poet to define his positions that express his reality by building bridges between the past and the present to reproduce This is a present inheritance.