Jamal Talebi gharegheshlaghi
Abstract
The readout of the mystical heritage has emerged clearly in literature, especially in a number of contemporary novels. This reveals spiritual developments among the story writers; those who seek to create knowledge based on abstract foundations. Some Arab novelists, specifically in the West, have employed ...
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The readout of the mystical heritage has emerged clearly in literature, especially in a number of contemporary novels. This reveals spiritual developments among the story writers; those who seek to create knowledge based on abstract foundations. Some Arab novelists, specifically in the West, have employed the knowledge and mystical heritage in the resurrection of the modern Arab novel. The novel Jabal Qaf written Abd al-Elah ibn Arafa is a new novelistic experience that contains mystical dimensions from the title to its end, as the mystical vision has been mixed with the cognitive material on the one hand and linked to the symbolic and aesthetic connotations on the other hand. Taking a semiotic approach, this research sought mystical place as an epistemological concept in the thoughts Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi, through exploring the mystical spatial scenes in Jabal Qaf, which shows his ideas about the place and the mystical connotations manifested especially in the descriptive scenes of the market of Murcia city, the bookcase of the Sultan, and mosques such as Al-Aqsa Mosque as well as other situations like scenes conquest or in his talk about the East and the West. The study concluded that religious and mystical spaces and places dominated the Jabal Qaf novel, and gave it a spiritual character. The narrator has been able to imbue it with mystical connotations that he borrowed from the idea of the great philosopher Ibn Arabi. The study revealed that this refers to the religious background adopted by the narrator
Jamal Talebi
Abstract
Mohammad Maghout, a contemporary Syrian poet, is one of the very pioneers of blank verse poetry in Arabic literature. Opposition and contradiction can be traced as a stylistic and dynamic feature of his many poems, making them not boring or dull. Marked lexicon and poetic forms, rendered in a subtle ...
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Mohammad Maghout, a contemporary Syrian poet, is one of the very pioneers of blank verse poetry in Arabic literature. Opposition and contradiction can be traced as a stylistic and dynamic feature of his many poems, making them not boring or dull. Marked lexicon and poetic forms, rendered in a subtle way make the readers amazing and sensitive. As a result of this dual contrast Mohammad Maghout stays outstanding in the realm of Arabic poetry, leading to his contradictory personality. He says “This is my nature, the essence I’m unable to change.” This dual conceptuality is depicted in the way the poet has experienced in real life, hence, a contradiction in his identity and universe. In this study, it was tried to examine this unique duality of Mohammad Maghout poetry in a descriptive and analytic approach. Through pinpointing his three main works (Sadness in the Moonlight, A Room with Millions of Walls, and Happiness Is Not My Profession), it was concluded that Mohammad Maghout has resorted to dual conceptuality to show his political and ideological issues. So, he has tried to tackle the readers’ minds and lead them to environmental aesthetic of his poems. This unprecedented frequent use of contradictions defines a new style in Arabic poetry that is unique to Mohammad Maghout.
