Faris Bani Hamdan

"Abu Firas Al -Hamdani", one of the novels of the writer Ali Al -Jarim, who talks about a historical personality, which is the poet Abu Firas Al -Harith bin Saeed Al -Hamdani Al -Taghalbi, from the Arab Al -Hamdani tribe, ruled northern Syria and Iraq and their capital was Aleppo in the tenth century AD. The Hamdani appeared in the period of the weakness of the Abbasid caliphate, the defeat of the Persians and the Turk. They established the wars to consolidate their authority, and Abdullah, the father of Saif al -Dawla al -Hamdani and the uncle of the poet, occupied Abu Firas in the confines of Saif al -Dawla, after the death of his father early, so he broke out a poet knight, and he defended the emirate of his cousin against the Roman attacks, and participated in the councils of literature and poets. The novel tells how he fell in love with "Najla Al -Khalidiya" from the beauty of the Emir Palace, and how the army commander "Qarawah" felt jealous, because he also loved her, so he planned to catch him, to win the heart of Najla. He succeeded in doing so, and caused him to be familiar with the enemies with great deception and deception, so he was harmful and tortured, but Abu Firas Al -Hamdani was liberated and a ransom was paid to rid him of families, so he was able to return to his homeland and his sweetheart. .