Salah Abd-ol-Saboor and the Art of Using past Heritage, Especially Sufism

Arabic contemporary poetry has been revolutionized through the past heritage. Salah Abdol- Saboor, an Egyeptian poet, is one of those who practiced the heritage well. Making an artistic use of the heritage, he clarified his own personal and social problems. Among the great examples of such practices are the use of sufi literature such as Haludge story , the story of Boshrol_ hafi, and the use of folkloric literature like Sandbud’s adventures and a frustrated king called Ajeeb- ibn- ol khaseeb. Looking the social needs of the time along with his introversion, he was much more encouraged by the Sufism hermeticism branch in the ancient literature and used it symbolically in his own practice . He made a link, through a poetic manipulation, between the past heritage and today’s social issues. He conveyed his own social and human messages from the perspective of the past heritage.