Amir Saif al-Dawlah Hamdani's interaction with poets and its intellectual and cultural consequences

The Hamedanian government with a Shiite orientation was formed in the golden age of Islamic civilization with two branches, Mosul and Aleppo. Ali ibn Abdullah ibn Hamdan, known as Sayf al-Dawlah, the founder of the Hamdanids Aleppo branch, who himself knew poetry and the literature, played an important role with the financial and spiritual support of the poets and literates to provide suitable bases for the creation of numerous literary works. This research method has been studied by descriptive-analytical method and by studying historical and literary sources, peruses the ways and means of linking Sayf-al-Dawlah Hamdani with poets and its intellectual and cultural consequences. The communication and interaction of Saif al-Dawlah Hamdani with the poets during the period of weakness of the Abbasid caliphate led to scientific development and intellectual and cultural  promotion of society, and the poets, in addition to the creation of literary and scientific works, strengthened the epic and resistance spirit against invasion of Rome, promoted Shiite beliefs, such as defense The legitimacy of the Ahlul-Bayt (as) and the censure of the system of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs.