The
summary
Of
PHD thesis in Arabic Literature and Criticism
The thesis title: The
maritime civilization in the Arab poetry tills the end of the ninth AH century: A study in the theme and the artistic
performance.
The researcher: Naser ben
Rashed ben Shaihan
The
Arab language Faculty, Imam Mohamed ben Soud Islamic university
This
research encloses the poetry which pictured the Arab dealing with the sea …
this dealing that shaped their culture about the marine life, riding ships for
journey, diving, excursion and war and how this influenced their imagination.
The
research begins with an introduction about the maritime civilization concept
and its history with the Arabs then the study is divided in two parts:
First part: the subjects of the maritime civilization
in poetry… this part enclose 5 chapters.
The first Chapter: Ships in the time of peace which includes three studies.
First
study: The desert trip and its relation with the sea, this study was a
kind of rooting to the mention of the maritime civilization in the first poetry
and how they keep referring to it what is considered a very important phase
that influenced the poets' imagination and has been associated to their desert
life and their interest to the environment as well as an advanced step on the
civilization's chain.
Second
study was assigned for the maritime trip as it was mentioned in the pre-Islamic
poetry and it prospered till it pictured all that is related to the sea from
ships to sailors and travelers.
The river trip came as the third study to shed
light on a splendid prosperous and intimate competition to describe the new way
and the new carriage to the praised.
The second chapter: the ships during the time of war. Its first
study came to talk about the marine fleets; their importance, their nature,
their soldiers and their tools as for the second study …. It talks about the
maritime wars which those fleets fought associated by the historical facts.
The third
chapter is the human activity to complete the parts of the maritime civilization so its first study handles the diving and fishing
which the poets described accurately and with high proficiency either in the
pictures or in the emotional reactions which reveals the old economical states
and the touching civilized and social communication.
The
second study treats the festivals and the sessions that penetrate the scene and
the people enjoyment of the maritime atmosphere and the available potentials in
that time to express the human joy and how he expresses his concerns and creates
the annual occasions.
The
third study ends by talking about the buildings and maritime facilities as
material civilization's aspects that shows a major turnover in dealing with the
sea and how to invest its boards and its capacity to provide a good life for
the human been .
The forth chapter: the impact of the maritime
civilization on the poet's psychology so its first study talks about:
meditation and reflection when the second study reveals the fear and horror
that poet could feel towards the sea.
The fifth Chapter talks about the manifestations of
the maritime civilization are in the poetry. It monitors the poetry forms
that mentioned the sea like a moral civilization penetrating in the Arab
heritage and their thought.
The
first study: Praising that the poets employed the sea in generosity and giving
an employment that express their admiration and amazement that it becomes a
supreme model of the generous person.
The
second study: in description to show the great influence that the sea had
previously on the Arab imagination where the Arab poet compares it to the
night, the army or anything that he wants to show its multitude.
The
third study in flirtation showing a very close relation between the lover and
the sea as it finds in it a world that distance him from any observer and the
enviers' eyes and to sink in love and passion as he sinks in the sea.
The
forth study: in other stuff to follow the sea manifestations in a less forms
like honor, satire and wisdom. That study demonstrates the expansion of the
poets 'employ of the sea and how they convoyed with the artistic requirements
and motives
The second part included the artistic performance in three chapters. The first
chapter was assigned for the poetic intertextuality so its first study presents
how the poetry of the maritime civilization was affected by the holy Quran
including divers' examples where the poets extract expressions and words
describing the sea and its waves from the holy Quran and the prophets' stories.
The
second study demonstrates the affect and effect phenomenon between the poets by
availing of each other in word or meaning and by collaborating in many thoughts
and pictures. The intertextuality ends by the third study which indicates the
influence of the legends on the maritime civilization's poetry where the poet
was not isolated from the old legends and where some pictures was related to what it symbolize .
The second Chapter was designated to the
language as it is the tool that illustrates the thoughts and the form that
present the meaning.
The
first study incurs to the words dictionary which manifests the use of the words and its
characteristics.
The
second study gathers what is related to the semantic level. It presents every
element of the civilization's elements separately to elicit the shown words
semantic and the interne meanings as well as its far revelations. So he brings
important visions of the uses of every field.
The
third study: the structure level where was monitored all the important style
forms that are related to the sentence structure. The Artistic part ends by
talking about the picture in two studies. The first study illustrates the
picture sources where the poets got their images and which affect their
imagination. The second one studied the kinds of the partial picture from
comparison, metaphor and symbolism … and the full picture which is related to
the poet experience and the surrounding aspects of the text.
The
study ended with a closure then an index of the sources and references in
addition to a content index.
The
most important results that the study concluded were:
1- The
multitude of the sea expressions and its words diversity in the old Arab
poetry.
2- The
poets concern of the ships description and their names and kinds.
3- The
maritime trip description and its flourishing in the Andulsian poetry.
4- The
multitude of the river trip description and its flourishing in the Abassy
poetry.
5- Comparing
the Camel description to the ship and the desert with the sea and vise versa.
6- The
connection between the maritime civilization forms and the praise also how the
ship became the carriage to reach the one praised
7-
The effect of some poets in their
pictures and thoughts with the maritime civilization and its employment in
their poetry and its manifestation in their stuff.
8- The
description of the fleets and the maritime war in the Abassy and Ayouby poetry
and its flourishing in the Andulasian poetry.
9- The
poetry description of the human activity either in diving, fishing, festivals,
maritime assemblies, buildings and facilities.
10 -The
poet psychology affection with the maritime trip and how the fear and horror
conquer his feelings.
11 –
The contribution of the nature environment in shaping the poetic picture
especially the animal like camels and birds.
12 –
Exchanging ideas and meanings between poets where the late benefits from the
earlier as well as intertextuality from the holly Quran .
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