The poetry of the Khalidis - a rhythmic and balanced study

Abstract

The research deals with an important pillar of poetry, which is rhythm. More importantly, it studies the poetry of two poets as if they spoke with one tongue. They are the Khalidis, the eldest brother of whom is Abu Bakr Muhammad (d. 380 AH) and Abu Uthman Saeed (d. 390 AH). Perhaps he is one of the rarities in the history of our Arabic literature. To find two poets born from the same womb, who roamed the cities together, loved together, and flirted together. Therefore, their translation was the same and the critics’ talk about them was the same, until it came to the point that their poetry was not attributed to one of them, but rather to both of them, such as: Al-Khalidian said.. and Al-Khalidian chanted. It is a critical problem that was addressed by Dr. Sami Al-Dahan, a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Damascus, when he made an effort to extract the poetry of the two poets from the main books of literature and the history of ancient literature and to verify their attribution. He produced for us a verified collection consisting of two sections, the first section: by Abu Bakr Al-Khalidi and the second section: by Abu Othman. Al-Khalidi, while he devoted a third part to the poetry that books and sources attributed to the two brothers together, and none of them was unique in it from the other. Therefore, the importance of this study comes from tracking the poetry of two special poets, as it will monitor the similarities and differences in an important aspect of poetry, which is rhythm, as it is considered a prominent feature that the statistics we have adopted can highlight in light of revealing the meters that the two poets used and determining the nature of the musical enhancements that they employed. Within the framework of what is called internal rhythm?