Technique of Sacred Marriage between Caliph and Authority in Panegyric Poetry

Al-Mousa, Mishari Abd El-Aziz

doi:10.21608/jssa.2020.119122

Technique of Sacred Marriage between Caliph and Authority in Panegyric Poetry

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Mishari Abd El-Aziz Al-Mousa

Department of Arabic Language, Kuwait University, Kuwait

10.21608/jssa.2020.119122

Abstract

One of the poetic techniques, which poets have employed in their panegyric poetry and have not attracted scholars’ considerable attention, is to represent the relation between caliphs and authority by a sacred marriage. The first scholar mentioning sacred marriage in brief when studying Arabic panegyric poetry is Stefan Sperl. However, all previous studies have depended on one textual example. This has been a challenge we have faced. We have defeated this challenge by following some methodological criteria. Therefore, this study analyzes textual poems that have not been examined to investigate the sacred marriage in them. This study also ends up with critical findings that may expand research horizons for other scholars. The study has been divided into an introduction, literature review and what special about this study, a practical section where the selected poems are analyzed and divided into two kinds: obligatory sacred marriage and voluntary sacred marriage, and a conclusion with the most significant findings.

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