The maqama is a eulogy of agriculture and its products, especially bread, which is of rare occurrence in Arabic literature[56]. Arabic literature, in general, was fully urban - when not haunted by Bedouin nostalgia - and the farmers and heir life in the countryside were almost totally neglected during the millennium of Classical Arabic literature. The maqama contains elements of social criticism, that aims to draw attention to the neglected agricultural system in eighteenth-century Iraq, however it comes in the form of a playful petition to a patron, and the rural point of view is there to make the listeners/readers laugh, as well as relatively awaken them to the social melancholy in the countryside.