The Transcendent in Literature

Abstract

Arabic poetry has changed after the advent of Islam; that poets started to adopt Islamic concepts and values to create a new method of rising and boasting and searching for the metaphysical and the abstract. This new vision was accompanied with the Islamic entity and the elevated abstract; thus, this has influenced poets’ vocabulary, methods, and poetic diction. This research aims to uncover the elevated intellectual transformations that Islam came up with in the Arabic poetry and their influence upon the Arabic poem and its subjects in the Islamic age. This is done by showing the religious elevated meaning and the humane tendency that is embodied in poetic patterns that reflected Islam as a big intellectual authority on the Arabic poetry. The study has examined three poetic patterns which are: the self-religious pattern in the poetry of Hassan Bin Thabit; the second pattern is the world of platonic love in the poetry of Jameel Buthaina. The last pattern discusses the horizon of liberty, sacrifice and the concept of life and death in the poetry of “Khawarej.”