Al-Maari Abu-L-went

Abu-L-Went Al-Maari , Aboul Ala El-Maari or Aboul Alaa El-Maari (973 - 1057) is a large poet and Arab philosopher , known for its virtuosity and the originality and the pessimism of its vision. Indeed, its philosophical poems are built on the basis of major existential sadness, making pessimism a policy and a departure with any philosophical reflection. Thus, it preceded approximately eight century the thought allotted in the western world to Arthur Schopenhauer.

Al-Ma ' arri was downward tribe of Tanukh. It was born in the Syrian city from My `arrat year-NR `uman close to Alep. A disease of childhood left it practically blind. He studied with Alep, Antioche, and with Tripoli with the Lebanon and began his literary career, constant by a small private income. Its first poetries were gathered in the Saqt az-zand of (" the spark of amadou"), which enjoys a great popularity.

After approximately two years with Baghdad, Al-Maari returned to Syria of north in 1010, partly because of bad health of his/her mother. In Baghdad, it had been initially received in prestigious literary living rooms; but when he refused to sell his Panégyrique S, he could not find of sure patron. He renonça with the material richness and withdrew himself in a moved back dwelling, there alive under modest conditions. Locally, Al-Maari enjoys respect and authority, and from many students came to study with him. He also maintained an active correspondence.

Al-Maari wrote a second collection of Poésie S more original, Luzum my lam yalzam (" the inutile" need;), or Luzumiyat (" nécessités"), referring to the useless complexity of arrangement Rime S. the Humanisme skeptic of these poetries was also apparent in the Risalat Al-ghufran (translation English E of G. Brackenbury, Risalat ul Ghufran, has Divine Comedy , 1943), in which the poet visits the Paradis and meets his predecessors, pagan poets who found forgiveness. This last work caused some suspicions at the Musulman S. One thought besides of him that it was marked by the doubt.

The work Al-Fusul wa Al-ghayat (" Paragraphs and périodes"), a collection of Homélie S in Prose rimée, was even treated of parody of the Coran. Although he was the lawyer of social justice and the action, Al-Maari thought that the children should not be conceived, in order to save the future generations the pains life. In November 2007, its work was prohibited of exposure to the International fair of the Book of Algiers (SILA) on ordinance of the ministry for the Religious affairs and Algerian Wakfs.

Here some of its daring worms:
the inhabitants of the ground are divided into two,
Those which have a brain but not religion,
And those which have a religion but not brain.

Large solitary lyric poet, it was translated into French by Adonis.

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