Representations of the Divine in Arabic Poetry

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Gert Borg, Ed de Moor
Rodopi, 2001 - Всего страниц: 239
In Islam the fascination for "the word" is as vigorous as in Judaism and in Christianity, but an extra dimension is, that the revealed text, the Koran, is considered to be verbatim the word of the Almighty Himself, thereby providing the Arabic language with just an extra quality. No wonder that throughout Islamic history the study of the word, the Koran, the prophet's utterances and the interpretation of both, has become the main axis of knowledge and education.
As a consequence the intellectuals - and also the poets in Islamic culture - were thoroughly familiar with religious terms and the phraseology of a language which was highly estimated because of the divine origin with which it was associated. No wonder therefore, that allusions to religious texts can be found throughout Arabic literature, both classical and modern.
The subject of this volume is the representation of the divine in Arabic poetry, be it the experience of the divine as expressed by poets or the use of imagery coined by religion.

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The Divine in the works of Umayya b Abî alŞalt
9
Salvation at Sea? Seafaring in Early Arabic Poetry
25
Manifestations of the Divine as Represented in Poems
71
The Experience of the Divine in the Poetry of the Egyptian
85
Humorous Approach of the Divine in the Poetry of alAndalus
119
The Koran as Subtext in Modern Arabic Poetry
139
Religious motifs and themes in North American Mahjar Poetry
161
Sin and Sexuality in the Poetry
183
The Divinity of the Profane Representations of the Divine
197
by Stefan Weidner
211
The Christ Figure in Sâyighs Poetry
227
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