muwashshah is a poetic form which originated in andalus (the present-day spain) in the third century after hegira, and much has been said on its first composer, andalusian origin, and definition. while many researchers admit that they are uninformed concerning the causes or the justifying reasons for the emergence of muwashshah, they consider in both old and new books several factors as the maj...

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask a...

In antiquity, the relationship between “music”, “poetry”, and “language” was very different from the way they relate to each other today, for back then each of these mediums was endowed with a distinct, independent signifying code expressing a semiosis all its own. However, these separate “semiospheres” nonetheless never ceased growing towards and into one another. This is so because music and ...

human history has been witness to the emergence of great men and women who illustrated the sufferings and wishes of mankind. they have bravely put in hard effort to resist long-standing and reactionary traditions of their own society and to fight oppressors, and at the same time, the comfort-seeking opportunists have endeavored to derail their efforts and to project a tarnished image of these c...

intertextuality of literary-historic figures is one of the artistic techniques of poetry in modern era being used a lot by contemporary arab poets. because of their proximity to arab contemporary poets, the previous classic poets have a great share of the call.among the previous poets, abul ‘ala al-ma‘arri, known as the philosopher of the poets, with his philosophical attitudes and strange life...