Summary
Palestinian poet named by Kanafani, with Ibrahim Tuqan and Abu Salma, as the culmination of the nationalist poets of the early 1930s; his 14 August 1935 poem to the visiting Amir Saud became part of the revolutionary heritage, and he was killed in the battle of Al-Shajara in 1948.
Details
- Ibrahim Tuqan, Abu Salma and Abd al-Rahim Mahmud were, since the beginning of the 1930s, the culmination of the wave of nationalist poets who inflamed the whole of Palestine with revolutionary awareness and agitation; Taufiq Ziyad is quoted counting Mahmud among the earlier revolutionary poets whose battle the later poets of resistance extended (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.28-29).
- His poem written on 14 August 1935, addressing the Amir Saud who was visiting Palestine and asking whether he had come to visit the Aqsa Mosque or to say farewell to it before it was destroyed, became extremely famous and came to be regarded as part of the revolutionary heritage (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.30-31).
- Kanafani notes the poet was to lay down his life in the battle of Al-Shajara in Palestine in 1948 (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.30-31).
Related pages
The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Ibrahim Tuqan, Abu Salma, Resistance Poetry