SAID AQL: A LEBANESE POET AND THINKER

سعيد عقل شاعر ومفكر لبناني

  • Muhammad Ajmal استاذ مساعد بمركز الدراسات العربية والافريقية - جامعة جواهرلال نهرو نيودلهي،الهند
Keywords: Said Aql, Arabic poetry, Culture of Lebanon, Lebanese society, سعيد، عقل، الشعر العربي، ثقافة لبنانية، المجتمع اللبناني

Abstract

Saeed Aql was a Lebanese poet, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer. He was considered one of the most important contemporary Lebanese poets. He was also an advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese colloquial language. His writings include poetry and prose both in Lebanese dialect and in classical Arabic language. He has also written theatre pieces and authored many popular songs.Aql was born in 1912 to a Maronite family in the city of Zahle, Lebanon. In his early life he worked as a teacher and then as a journalist. He then studied theology, literature and Islamic history, becoming a university teacher and subsequently lecturing in a number of Lebanese universities. Aql adopted a powerful doctrine of the authentic millennial character of Lebanon resonating with an exalted sense of Lebanese dignity. For Saeed Aql Lebanon was the cradle of culture and the inheritor of the Oriental civilization, well before the arrival of the Arabs on the historical stage. He emphasized the Phoenician legacy of the Lebanese people.Aql has numerous writings ranging from theatrical plays, epics, poetry and song lyrics. His first published work was released in 1935, a theatrical play written in Arabic.

Published
2017-01-01