Abstract

After the conquest of Khorasan by the Muslims in the early stages of their foreign wars and the settlement of Arab tribes there, especially after the arrival of Mamoun Abbasi in the city of Marv, the Arabic language and literature slowly entered Khorasan and its surroundings; So that the Arabic language became common among the people along with the Persian language to the point where they knew and spoke it well and flourished in the 4th and 5th centuries of Hegira. This led to the emergence of a group of great poets and writers such as Abu-Bakr Kharazmi, Thaalabi and Badi al-Zaman Hamdani and others who surpassed their Arab counterparts. Thaalabi and Bakherzi have mentioned many poets along with their poetic pieces in the great collections of Yatima Al-Dahr and Damiyata Al-Qasri, which need to be researched in different literary and cultural dimensions. One of the phenomena that we come across a lot in these two poetry collections is satire of cities and provinces. Hence, the present article intends to explore the reasons for the emergence of this type of satire, which appears among other types of satire in the Arabic poetry of Khorasan, according to the descriptive analytical method. The results of the research also indicate that several factors such as the existence of debauchery, the poet's sense of alienation, and the oppression of government officials were involved in this matter.

Keywords: Arabic Poetry, Satire of Cities and Provinces, Khorasan