The Image of King `Amr Ibn Hind in the Pre-Islamic Period
Abstract in English:
The king Amr Ibn Hind ruled the state of Manathira obout 8ne and
halfe decade. The poets had had a strong relationship with him. They
were his drinking companions. They used to betake his court to obtain his
grants or to ask him for the requirments of their own tribes. The king
used to care for them. This study is aiming at throwing some light on the
image of the king Amr b.Hind as reflected in the poems of his court
poets. Hence, to clear out this image, three subjects of these poems will
be tackled which are: eulogy,defamatory,threat and inflamatory. In
conclusion the image of the king was very clear in the poems of the
poets,but differs widely from one subject of the poems to another. He is
noble lord in the panigrical poems. In defamatory poems,he is faithless
and perfidious. In the threat and inflamatory poems, he is terrible and
dreadful.