The Kāmel Palace and the Kāmel metre: The Semiotics of Perfection and Moderation in alButurī's Poem Describing the Kāmel Palace

Al-Buḥturī, the well-known Abbasid era poet (897 AD.) recited a poem on the occasion of the inauguration of a palace named "Kāmel" and the comedown of the Abbasid caliph ،al-Mu‘tazz bi-’llāh in Nowruz. In this poem he praised the caliph and described the palace. He used the Kāmel metre (Baḥr al-Kāmel) for his poem to match it with the name of the palace. What impressive is that, now there is nothing left behind except the exact descriptions of al-Buḥturī. In this analytic study which is based on the various statistics we tried to review the semiotics of perfection and moderation in the poem whether their use was intentional or unintentional. We concluded that the poet, intentionally, used the Kāmel metre for his poem in order to relate it to the name of the palace. By this, the poet wanted to prove to the history that the palace that he made with his Kāmel metre and other clear and hidden semiotics is more indelible than the palace that the architects of that time built for the caliph.