ابن الرومي في ميزان النقد القديم و الحديث

Abstract EN

Ibn Al-roumi is one of the Abbasid poets.

His personality, poetry and his style were and are still topics for study and investigation.

His works are translated, cited and/or refered to directly or indirectly in almost recent works that are written about the Abbasid era.

This is due to his status and his poetic talent.

This study is an attempt to investigate and to analyse some different views about Ibn Al roumi’ works and about his poetic talent and style depending on his divan as a source of evidence.

After analysing the obtained results, we found that: There are positive and negative views about Ibn Al-roumi.

Ibn Al-roumi is considered to be the most famous and talented poet, who has a sharp style in satire.

Many scholars and researchers praised his proficiency of description and the veriety and the beauty of his discriptions.

Some of scholars asserted that in his poetery, Ibn Al-roumi uses the prose in his poems, and that his poetry, most of the time, is empty of allusions.

Some scholars see that Ibn Al-roumi uses logic and imagination in his poems, and this is because of his origin.

They called this: "The Greek Genius"