The Persian Effect on Abdulsamad Bin Babak's Poetry

Abdulsamad Bin Babak is an Arabic poet who belongs to Saleem tribe, Baghdad, where he died there in the year 410 A.H- 1020 A.C. He moved a lot between Iraq and Persia in the courts of Buyid princes. Due to his travels and visits to Persia, there is a vivid impact of Persian language, culture, traditions in his poetry. The study attempts to reveal this effect on cultural exchange between the two neighbouring nations, the Arab and the Persian.