صوره الفخر الادبي عند ابن نباته الـمصري

The Image of Literary Pride by Ibn Nubata Al-Mesri

Narcissism is one of the poetic techniques in which the poet boasts about and glorifies his/her own people’s merits and achievements. This style can be seen in most of Arab poets in different eras. Narcissism is classified into various kinds such as congenital, literary, political and religious narcissism and so the like. As it was liked a lot in the past, composing this style was very common. But it diminishes from Jahilid (Pre-Islamic times) to Islamic age and from the Omowian dynasty to the Abbasi dynasty by degrees. This poetic technique in the Mamloki period had less opportunity and it was during this period that literary narcissism emerged. The outstanding Egyptian poet Jamalladin Ibn Nubata living in the Mamloki period attempted this style. Although no part of his Diwan (collected poems of a poet) is allocated to narcissism. Most of his is literary narcissism in which he brags about his poems. In this essay descriptive methods have been used to analyze the concept of Ibn Nubata’s literary narcissism.