Echoes of the Second Conquest of Egypt and the Removal of the Fatimid State in 567 AH / 1172 AD in Arabic Literature: A Subjective Study.

Abstract

During the sixth century AH, a huge event occurred in the Islamic world, which was the fall of the Fatimid state, or the second conquest of Egypt in the year 567 AH / 1172 AD. This was achieved during the reign of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, after orders that were issued to him by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustadi and Nur al-Din Zangi to end the Fatimid Caliph’s reign and restore Egypt under the name of the Abbasid Caliphate. This event had a great impact on the Islamic world first and second, on the Arabic literature. Despite the importance of the event, and the large number of literary texts that have been wrote about it, there is no scientific research that tackles its various aspects. Due to that, this research aims at:

• Explaining the effect of this conquest on the Arabic literature; its poetry and prose.


• Identifying the most important literary figures who wrote about it.


• Studying these texts substantively to find what their different meanings and explanations are.

The research relied on the inductive, descriptive, and analytical method, and in its results. This research does not focus on the technical side of the literary texts in detail, in order to not widen the focus of the research on other aspects.