Al-Tafouh Diwan 1935-2010

its translation and poetic production, presentation and criticism

Abstract

Mabrouk Muhammad Al-Tafouh, to introduce him to the literary community, to show his poetry to the fields of science and his students to study it, and to enrich the Arabic library with literary study of poetry and prose. He did not see the light, and our poet is not far from that. He is a contemporary poet, and his poetry was recently published in 2015. The paper is the first on his only Diwan (The Secret That Reveals), so we have influenced the definition of it as it is easy to know from his Diwan, the compiler, arranged and investigator with the knowledge of Professor Nasr Moftah Agha, who was a contemporary of the poet and met him many times, and recommended him to collect and arrange the Diwan after his death.   We also deal in the research with his poetic collection and a census of his poems, where it came in 129 poems in classical in a number of verses that exceeded 900 verses of poetry, and 17 titles in the so-called free poetry (activation), their number is 209 poetic verses. As for his prose writings, they are almost negligible in number, great in meaning, they aim at noble morals, virtue and wisdom. His poems came in most of the poetic fields (political poetry, governance, sermons and thoughts) and in the purposes of Arabic poetry (praise - pride - spinning - lamentation - satire - wisdom) and we review examples of them in our work. Various, including in the matter of education, companionship and brotherhood, poetry about the exploits of marriage and its problems, and another in the lamentation of his son Musa, then the Diwan concluded with an orphan prose writing under the title of judgment, advice and sermons in prose, with a conclusion for the investigator and an index of topics.