The assistant professor at the College of Islamic Sciences – Karbala University, Assistant Professor Dr. Nawras Ibrahim Abdul-Hadi, issued a book entitled (Simulating Patterns in the Abbasid Era – Objectives and Means)
This book is based in general on the art of acting among the ancient Arabs, and the book indicated that the Arab theater in its early beginnings was a popular theater whose heroes were from a low class that practiced their work in public squares without lights or a stage above which the actor did not divide the audience into actors and viewers, and perhaps the popularity of this Art was one of the reasons for the absence of many features of this art in the Arab heritage.
The book deals with the types of simulations in the Abbasid era, including what is individual, plural, and patterns. As well as highlighting the simulation of patterns in the Abbasid era that Al-Jahiz conveyed accurately to us. One blind, but combines all that is separated from the movements of the blind in the character of the narrator. And if a donkey’s bray is narrated, it combines all the notes that fit the donkey’s bray, and makes it into one donkey’s bray.
The researcher indicated that the art of gramophone is based on selecting (a typical model) from every class or group of people and animals that he may wish to emulate. To reflect the general features of them, meaning that the narrator does not preserve only the typical features that do not meet with any individual. (The Baghdadi message) by Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi was formed mainly on the concept of style, in addition to the maqamat of al-Hamdhani, in which the hero combined what was divided into the categories of the contemporaries, their expressions and their behavior in one character, Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari.