Browsing by Author "Hishomudin Ahmad"

This study is based on a popular assumption that there is a similarity between Abu Bakr al-Sanawbari (A.H 334) and Ibn Khafajah al- Andalusi (A.H 533) in their poetry about nature. Therefore, the researcher tries to make a comparative study on the nature of their poetry, particularly, examining the beauty, the ingenuity and the skills of the two poets, as well as tracing the influence al-$anawbarihad on Ibn Khafi!fah and attempting to highlight the similarities and differences between the two personalities. To complete this study, an analytical method is adopted based on references related to the topic. It is concluded from this study that poetry about nature was at its climax in the hands of Abu Bakr al-Sanawbari and Ibn Khafajah al-Andalusi. Both of them shared the same methods and approaches in poetry writing, especially in the poetical structures, meanings and language styles due to the influence of the environment that they lived in. Nevertheless, they differ from each other in terms of imaginations, emotions, literary styles, as well as the rhythm of the poetry, which deny the possibility of imitations of each other. In addition, each of these characteristics refers to the unique qualities of each poet.

This study discusses al-Andalusian prose on nature in the periods of Muluk al-Tawacif and al-Murabitin in order to fill a gap in literature studies that focus solely on the poetical part of nature. The Arab Andalusian literature (verses and prose) had achieved an outstanding achievement in these two periods. Therefore, the researcher tries to examine the prose texts on nature that were produced by the writers of those periods, study the genres of prose on nature, highlight the backgrounds of the writers, clarify literary styles and, expose the creativity and ingenuity in these texts. This study relies on two main methods, inductive and analytical. It is concluded from this study that the Andalusian prose was at its climax in the hands of great writers in those two periods. Nature was mostly described in all genres of prose; the most famous are the letters. These literary genres have good quality in the structure of the prose, expression and composition, imagination and literary images, and rhythm .All these elements made those prose distinguished literature. In addition, the emergence of new topics also shows the outstanding talent of the Andalusian writers in describing nature in their prose texts.