A Courage in Al-Mutanabbi Poetry from a Positive Psychological Perspective

Positive psychology is a new approach to psychology was invented by Martin Seligman, based on recognizing the abilities and empowering them in human beings instead of discovering the soul and internal diseases. These abilities come from virtues. Positive psychology divides these virtues into six general ones, and “Courage” is one of these virtues in positivist psychology. This approach of psychology has a special attention to optimism and considers it as its most important principle and believes that the discovery of mental illnesses and trying to cure it, regardless of its positive inner abilities, is a type of pessimism that leads to pessimism. The inside of man makes more open. Thus, a positive psychologist seeks the characteristics, virtues and abilities of people, and counts inner virtues as six virtues, of which courage is one of them. This article is entitled: "Courage in Al-Mutanabbi Poetry from a Positive Psychological Perspective". This research providing a psychological definition on the virtue of courage and its types, to the sources of that virtue such as honesty, endeavor and perseverance, resilience and toughness, risk-taking and flexibility in Al-Mutanabbi poems by relying on descriptive-analytical method, in order to expand the interdisciplinary researches, and provide a new gate for literature researchers. This research has evaluated Al-Mutanabbi as a brave and an optimist person.