Hussein bin Lootah
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| Hussein bin Lootah | |
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| Born | 1885 |
| 19481948 | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Emirate |
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Hussein bin Nasser Lootah (1885, Dubai – 1948, Ras Al Khaimah) was an Emirati Poet who is considered one of the faces of the local Emirati culture.[1][2]
He is one of the most famous pearl merchants or “The Tawawish” who contributed strongly to flourishing the shipbuilding industry and activating the commercial movement in the Emirate. Moreover, his vital cultural and social role through interest in poetry, literature, and turning the place into an incubator for poets and creators.
Biography[edit]
Hussein bin Lootah lived his life as a poet and pearl merchant in Dubai and moved to the Emirate of Ajman in the first decade of the last century year (1911), where he resided for three decades and spent working between land and sea, was a famous pearl dealer and a great poet. Its attracting that he never thought of publishing a poetry book, however he left his poems in the homes of his parents, until his daughter, Dr. Rafia Obeid Ghobash removing the rubble from her grandfather's texts and writing a book chronicling his life as poet who was able to impose his presence in the Emirate Nabati poetic scene during the first half of the twentieth century.[3]
The book “Historical Papers from the life of the Poet Hussein bin Nasser Al Lootah” for Dr. Rafia Obaid Ghobash, published year 2008, and it is considered one of the important sources in tracking his life and poetic biography of one of the brightest pioneers and symbols of Nabati poetry in the Emirates.
Dr. Rafia Ghobash recalls the image of the environment in which the poet lived through the position his family occupied in society. Hussein bin Lootah was born into a family famous for its economic, social, cultural and political dynamism. Some of his personal qualities through testimonies provided by a number of those who knew him, including Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Nuaimi, in addition the author also mentions that the poet was famous for his bravery, generosity, logic, wisdom, and in his way of speaking.
Hussein Lootah was not feeling enough in confirming his presence as a poet only but was also a first-class politician and economics man through his participation and following the political developments in the community, and it was based at the time on tribal relations and rivalries that surrounded them. Pearl trade helped him to earn abundant material, and he was famous in its field, as he also knew the type of pearls and estimated their value as soon as they were placed under his tongue.
Poetry[edit]
Hussein bin Nasser Lootah was known poetically for his simplicity and unpretentious poems, especially flirtatious poems characterized by boldness in retailing, optimism, vision, cheerful, mood, constant joy in life, humility, good manners, and fascination with the beauty of women.
The woman had an overwhelming presence in his poems, as she was the focus of his poetry. However, he emerged it through his soliloquy with her, describing her beauty, charms, purity, and making her a symbol of chastity and its indispensable adornment in existence. Perhaps his marriage to 10 women is enough evidence of this, as the women's anguish has subsided, and she took every outlet from him.
Last Days[edit]
His last days witnessed a suspicious illness, which according to the documents represented a mental disorder. At the end of his life, compelling circumstances in his ships savings, which was doing trade between Yemen and Dubai when the British intercepted it at sea, and they found a weapon in it to detain it with those on it. Moreover, family differences over inheritance, which makes his departure on his farm in Al Hudayba next to (Al Ghab) in Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
References[edit]
- ↑ "صحيفة الاتحاد - حسين بن لوتاه.. بدر الشعر". 2020-09-19. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "كتاب أوراق تاريخية من حياة الشاعر حسين بن ناصر آل لوتاه تأليف رفيعة عبيد غباش". 2021-06-05. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "حسين بن ناصر لوتاه شاعر المرأة.. والحكمة - موقع الجسرة الثقافي". 2021-06-09. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-22. Unknown parameter
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