The impact of strife in the poetry of Nasr bin Sayar

Abstract

            The paper aimed to study the impact of strife in Khorasan in the poetry of Nasr bin Sayar, the last governor of Khorasan in the era of Banu Umayyah. Naturally, the impact of this strife would overwhelm his poems with the notice of his existence as a center around which events revolve in Khorasan. The study adopted the descriptive approach by collecting Nasr's poetry in the strife from books of translation, biographies, history and literature, analyzing and comparing it with events.

            The paper concluded with several results, the most important of which is: Nasr's poetry came in tribal extremism as expected. An extremism for Mudhariya against Yamani, except for some verses praising a Yamani District or a few other verses calling for the renunciation of division and the union of all Arab tribes against their lurking enemy. This strife that Nasr addressed through his political, religious, or tribal poetry eventually led to an end to Umayyad rule.

            Nasr's poems were characterized by the fear of the Abbasid revolution and that, if not resolved, it would spread from Khorasan to all parts of the Islami caliphate. It is poetry complete after artistic image, and all his predication were true.