The ambitious poet

"The Ambitious Poet" is a story that brings together within its pages a precious collection of proverbs; it tells us the biography of Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi, the poet tormented in reaping the fruits of poetic ambition and moral nobility, and it clarifies for us the slander to which al-Mutanabbi was exposed by his adversaries, which led to the break between him and Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamdani.