Muawiya ibn Sufyan critic
Abstract
The councils of the caliphs were a marketplace in which literature was promoted, chanted and criticized, and the Umayyad interest in poetry and poets was evident and led to the flourishing of literature, so they adopted a high place between the caliphs and the parish, so the poets carried their poems to the role of the caliphate, and they issued them earnestly bags. The era of Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan encouraged literature and its criticism because of the wealth of money and stability of the state. There is no doubt that the role of the Caliph in directing, caring for and encouraging literature is conducive to the benefit of the nation and art alike, and that this guidance is a right of his rights but a duty of his duties, and that what the caliph seeks or the poets seek from him in terms of poetry, its meanings and images encourage that style and those meanings, experiences and images. And his creation is considered a type of poetry or one of its colors and one of his topics, urging literature to follow that approach and say "in those meanings and topics, and the same applies to what he desires of poetry and is rewarded for it. Muawiyas admiration for Amr ibn Al-Khazrajis poetry and his chanting verses of the poet In his sitting and saying in it: I put my legs in the riders more than once on the day of two rows.