Researchers

Ahmad Al Farouh

Published in

Damascus University Journal of Arts and Humanities Sciences, volume 40, issue 2, June 2024.

Abstract

The philosophy of life and death constitutes a clear semantic phenomenon in Ibn al-Jinnan’s poem (Al-Faia), and the poet employs it to express his outlook on life and death and his vision in them. After he was afflicted with grief, and his worries intensified after the separation from his father.

Ibn al-Jinnan broadcast in this philosophy the reality of this world and its characteristics, the inevitability of its disappearance, death and what comes after it, and revealed his own world. This philosophy was a pattern of awareness, maturity, and maturity, and successive cries to express the feeling of loss and sadness coupled with reason and submission to God’s will and turning to Him.

This research is a reading of Ibn al-Jinnan al-Ansari al-Andalusi’s poem (Al-Faia), which deals with the philosophy of life and death in it, through study and analysis. It includes an overview of the poet’s life and era, presents a definition of (Al-Faia) poem, and examines the concept of the philosophy of life and death. Then, he simplifies the statement about Ibn al-Jinnan’s philosophy, life and death, and the extension of each aspect, and reveals the philosophical aspects of it, which have long been obscure. Sometimes with the shadow of its significance that it casts in the imagination, sometimes with its timbre that it casts in the ear and at other times with the radiance of its linguistic structures and meanings. To reach the desired results of the research.

Key words: Ibn al-Jinnan, The philosophy, Life, Death. Awareness, Maturity.

Link to full paper

https://journal.damascusuniversity.edu.sy/index.php/humj/article/view/11362