Mosul in the Seventh Century AH the Dynamism of Politics and the Vitality of Culture

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the relationship between poetry and authority in Mosul during the seventh century AH because poetry remains a literary and aesthetic media system with objective values, serving both authority and the culture that contains and embraces it. Poetry has the advantage of continuity and mobility through time, intertwining with authority either in agreement or disagreement with personalities, positions, and events. The research found that political and cultural life in Mosul during the seventh century AH was dynamic and diverse, fluctuating between acceptance, rejection, and incitement. Poetry had varying stances towards events, governed by a set of political, social, and cultural factors. The city of Mosul witnessed political movement, power struggles, rich cultural activity, intellectual revival, and ideological consensus during the seventh century AH, where concepts of thought and aesthetic awareness intermingled in ideas, vision, imagery, and objective construction.