The Cultural and Literary Movement in Karbala

The city of Karbala was the origin of Islamic thought and cultural dissemination whereas it has performed the significant role in preservation of Arabic-Islamic culture and literature. While the great scholars and writers have also appeared in this city.
Poetry, story-writing, literary criticism, etc., are the examples of the cultural and literary movement in any region whereas all these cases are present in Karbala from past to the day.
This article, while reviewing the various aspects of the ancient and near past cultural and literary movement of Karbala, recalls the great libraries of this city, then discusses the poetic movement of Karbala in seventh century, its trends till the contemporary times and the literary circles of this city, then it introduces the famous literary gathering of Karbala. In continuation, it describes the formation of the literature of story-writing in the decade of 1930 A.D, its evolution and points towards the blossom of the literary criticism in the decade of 1910 A.D. too. The art of exhibition also can’t remained hidden by the writer whereas he describes its peak time from 1960 A.D to 1970 A.D. Translation from other languages, article writing and publications are other cultural manifestations of the contemporary times which has its own boom in the shadow of the leading printing and publishing industry of Karbala in Iraq.