Pleasant Grove Review | 1937-06-18 | Page 3 | Honored an Arab Poet

Honored an Arab Foet A thousand years ago an Arab poet first saw light at Kufa, in Iraq, ninety miles north of Bagdad. His name was Mutanabbi (936-965). The verdict passed on him by his people reflected admiration inspired by his ardent patriotism; by the fierce and bitter tenacity with which at first be struggled against a world that would have left him to starve; by his brilliant bril-liant career at the courts of Moslem princes, and by the resounding eloquence elo-quence whereby he immortalized their victories and glorified tneir defects.