The Technique of Religious and Literary Intertextuality in a Poem by Poet Saleh Ibn Abdul-Qudous, Known as “the Zainabia Poem”

Abstract

Abstract

This research focuses on the technique of religious and literary intertextuality in a poem by poet Saleh Ibn Abdul-Qudous, known as "the Zainabia poem", and on the way the poet benefitted from it, and hence came his ideas and meanings that are inspired by his emotional and poetic experience on the one hand, and supported by indications and gestures that are capable of persuading the recipient reader or listener. It makes him change his view in a way that matches the poet's point of view on the other hand. The research came in an introduction that presented the main themes and ideas of the poem, the motive for studying it through a textual study. This is the approach followed by the researcher, in order to reach the desired results. And it paves the way for dealing with textually as a language and a term, and its importance in modern critical studies. It included an applied study with certain aspects of the textuality mentioned in the poem; it stopped at the religious textuality, represented by The Holy Qur'an, the Prophet's hadith, and the literary textuality, represented by poetic textuality, and the benefit from other poetic studies. The research concluded with statements about the main findings of the research, and a list of references and sources follows.