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Literary and Sufi Analysis of Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Poem "al-Tā'iyyat al-kubrā": A Philosophical Educational Approach.
- Source :
- Journal of Language Teaching & Research; Mar2024, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p348-354, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The present paper offers a new approach to the poetry of the Egyptian Sufi poet 'Umar Ibn al-Fāriḍ (576-632AH/1181-1235AD). This approach is based on the text of Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Great Sufi Poem, al-Tā'iyyat al-kubrā, in which the poet expresses in full his spiritual experience. First, the basic hermeneutical question is discussed, e.g., what is the way of approaching a literary text in order to understand the experience of the poet' Also, it deals with a Sufi text, its context and the relationship between text and experience. To what extent does the author express his inner world verbally? In the end, there is a distance between the interior experience of a Sufi and his verbal expression. Eventually, this method is applied to the poetry of Ibn al-Fāriḍ. He describes his Sufi experience as a journey through three steps: from separation (farq) to unity (ittiḥād) to universal union (gam'). On such a partition, ten basic units are highlighted, forming the structure of his Sufi poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POETRY (Literary form)
POETS
CONCORD
MYSTICISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17984769
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Language Teaching & Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176027196
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1502.03