The Poetics of the Artistic Imagery in the Speeches of Abu Hamza Al-Shari Al-Kharji

Abstract

This study seeks to focus on the poetics of the artistic imagery of "Abu Hamza Al-Shari Al-Kharji", and to show what his speeches included in terms of artistic images. It concluded that his artistic images relied on a variety of methods, such as: metaphor, personification, embodiment, as well as analogy. It is noticeable that the images are derived from the surrounding environment and from ancient Arab life.The study consisted of an introduction and a preface which deals with the concept of poetics, linguistically and idiomatically, as well as poetics in ancient and modern times. The most important opinions of the ancients and modern scholars about it were presented. It also consisted of four chapters, the first dealt with imagery and the views of the ancients and modernists towards it, the second talked about the artistic imagery and imagination, the third was about rhetoric in the Umayyad era, and the fourth dealt with the artistic imagery of Abu Hamza Al-Shari. It ended with a conclusion in which the most important findings of the study were summarized. Finally, sources and references that were used in the study were listed.