Dinaric Poem by Al-Mutanabi
Abstract
It is so strange that a professional praise poet like Al-Mutannaby praises Ali bin Mansoorul-Hajib to be rewarded by only one Dinar while he was rewarded thousands of gold Dinars for a poem praising Saifud-Dawla. What is the secret of this poem? And was the single Dinar equal to the artistic and literary value or was it equal to the praising values of the poem? Or were they mere praising values.