حداثة ابي تمام في ضوء النقد العربي القديم حتى نهاية القرن السابع الهجري == Abu Tammam'S Modernism From The Perpective Of Classical Arabic Criticism Till The End Of The Seventh Hijri Century
Author name:
رنين ناظم يوسف
Supervisor name:
مسلم حسب حسين
General topic:
Arabic Language and Literature
Specific topic:
Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Literature - Department Of Arabic Language
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
01T4480 - p.pdf
Abstract:
This research studies modernism of Abu Tammam on the basis of the theory of classical Arabic criticism which consisted of rules and conditions put by the Arab critics and applied by the poets to make their poetry eloquent and solid with clear and vivid meanings.But Abu Tammam was keen to deviate from all these rules and principles in his poetry. Al - Amidi considered him as a rebel against the common foot of poetry because he played on words in his poems and became fond of rhetorics and figures of speech which he used extremely. Consequently,his poetry was corrupted by the heavy use of antithesis and paronomasia. Thus, he became the target of a strong movement of criticism that represented the conflict between the old and the new.Classical Arabic poetry was a summary of the experiences of the old poets. It directly expressed the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of their life. It was characterized by features of clarity of expression, agility and simplicity of language because it was natural and not superfacial. That was the case in the Arab poetry during the pre - Islamic time, beginning of lslam and the Ummaid era in addition to the majority of the poetry of the Abbasid era during which the way of living of the Arabs changed from nomadism to urbanism. Thus, there appeared a type of new Arab poets who had special knowledge and high education like Bashar Bin Burd, Muslim Bin Al - waleed and the most prominent of them was Abu Tammam.Modernism of Abu Tammam went far beyond the familiar in his illogical and unreasonable similies and metaphors. There was no appropriateness in his metaphor and no approximation in his similies. Besides, he played on words and used too much antithsis and paronomasia. He was good in some of them but not so in the others. That caused the Arab critics to attack him and refused his poetry which they said it deviated from the common foot of the Arabic poetry that was defined by Al - Marzooqi to have seven categories. any studies of criticism were conducted about Abu Tammam and his poetic school. This study is made up of an introduction,three chapters and conclusions. Chapters one and two consist of three sections each. Chapter three contains two sections.The introduction highlights modernism of poetry as viewed by the classical Arabic criticism both literally and as a term. It also reviews the concept of modernism since its appearance till the time of Abu Tammam. Chapter one is interested in the questions of imitation and nnovationin that Arabic criticism. Section one of the chapter shows the attitude of the linguists and narrators of the modern poetry, the position of khalef AL - Ahmar and his experience in criticism and the position of the critics of the classical poetry which they considered as the highest model that Arab poets should imitate and create in their poetry as a product of the individual liking. Section two is devoted to discuss modernism in relation to the theory of the foot of poetry that was represented in the seven categories as introduced by ALMarzooqi in the introduction of his book Commentary on Diwan of Ardor of Abu Tammam. The section also explains the principles of the poetic imagery in similie and metaphor and the role of poetic imagination to bring about new images and novel meanings that reflect beauty and psychological effect.Section one of chapter two discusses modernism in the poetry of Abu Tammam and the rules of the poetic language in the theory of Arabic criticism. The section also shows what was accepted and what was not in his language. The section shows how Abu Tammam, very heavily, used the rhetorical patterns especially antithesis and paronomasia where he was unsuccessful in some of them and good in others. Section three tackles the poetic meaning and the logical and mental characteristics that should be available in these meanings to be correct so that the poetry be undertood. This was agreed upon by the old Arab critics such as Qudama Bin Jaafar, Abi Helal Al - Askari, Abd Al - Qadir Al - Jirjani, Hazim Al - Qirtajinni and others. The section includes description of the meanings and their relation to the levels of description as far as exaggeration and excessiveness are concerned in that Qudama Bin Jaafar considered excessiveness as the best of the two schools of description.Finally, the section discusses ambiguity and complexity as products of corrupted poetic composition. Chapter three deals with modernism in the rhetorical image, modernism and the changes modern poets add to poetry in this concern. Modern poets paid more attertion to the form rather than to the meaning in their poetry. That led to the appearance of a new poem with specific features particulavly concerning the rhetorical image that depended on similie and metaphor. The poets started using these styles in new ways that were unfamiliar to the Arabic liking and taste. The first section of this chapter deals with similie and description and the rules put by the Arab critics to achieve approximation between the two sides of the similie; otherwise the similie would be exotic and not allowed. It was conditioned that the description contained most of the cases being described. The section mentions some samples of the similie and description in the traditional poem which the critics considered as better in comparison to the modern similies and description that deviated from the artistic critera and the common poetic taste. Section two talked about the metaphor and its definition by the Arab critics and availability of the conditions of approximation between the metaphoric expression and what it stood for. However, modern poets, particulary Abu Tammam, did not adhere to these conditions. Thus, Some of their metaphors were controversial. The conclusion presents the results of the study; the most important of which are that the classical Arab critics had a theory of criticism reflected in the opinins they stated in their books and set by Al - Marzooqi in the 5 Hijri century in a systematic approach that was finally shaped in what was later known as the foot of poetry that included seven categories and each of these categories represented a critical measurement of a certain question in poetry.
