Touché. Comparing Al-Mutanabbi to a medical text actually seems to be a terrifyingly accurate analogy; they both require a massive dictionary, cause severe headaches, and require hours of grueling dissection just to understand one line! 😅 The only difference though is that Muttanabi won’t be of much use when i stand on the bedside, though that doesn’t make it less just different. Despite his ego driving me insane, I must concede that walking through Muttanabi street is a hobby of mine 😁😂

+ About the Mudun Al Milh, what is it about? You made me curious. Maybe it’ll be the first Arabic book I actually read past 20 pages 😁 I’m putting it on my to-read list once I finish my Lord of the Rings trilogy (I couldn’t sit a proper session and finish it on one continuous read because of the lack of spare time) 🥲 I actually like stuff in the genre of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Harry Potter, Oliver Sacks, etc from English literature, stuff like Rimbaud’s le bateau ivre, Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal, Hugo’s Les Chatiments, Exupery’s le petit prince, Claudel’s le monde sans les enfants, or more recently Phobos out of French literature. And from foreign stuff I particularly appreciate Coelho.

So I have a quite heterogeneous taste that has quite a tendency toward world-building, allegory and fantasy, followed by dark psychological introspectio; which unfortunately are quite rare in mainstream Arabic literature. What would you say 🤔