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ديوان ابن خفاجة
English, Arabic (translation)
Original Arabic
Original Arabic
334 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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Ibrahim Ibn Abi Al-Fath Ibn Khafajah
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Ibn Khafajah or Abu Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abu Al-Fat-h Ibn Khafajah (1058-1138/9) of Alzira was one of the most famous poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids. He was born in 1058 in Alzira (Arabic: جزيرة شقر) near Valencia where he spent most of his life.
He developed nature poetry to a great level of sophistication. His poetry includes a few panegyrics, e.g. to Yusuf ibn Tashfin whom he praised out of thankfulness that he had saved Al-Andalus from chaos by retaking the region of Valencia from the Spaniards after the Conquest of Valencia in 1109. During the occupation of the surroundings of Valencia by the Spaniards (ca. 1100) Ibn Khafaja had fled the city to North Africa. He remained unmarried but had many friends and lived to be over eighty.
According to Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Ibn Khafaja demonstrates, in some of his poems a revolutionary attitude to language, using a vocabulary of great originality, which she describes as "warm and sensuous, obsessed with human intimacy, turbulent and conscious of the violence of life around him in a war-ridden country, awed by nature and eternally mystified both by its beauty and by its permanence vis-avis human mutability."
Composer Mohammed Fairouz set three poems of Ibn Khafajah to music in a cycle of vocal chamber music written for the Cygnus Ensemble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Kha...
Ibn Khafajah or Abu Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abu Al-Fat-h Ibn Khafajah (1058-1138/9) of Alzira was one of the most famous poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids. He was born in 1058 in Alzira (Arabic: جزيرة شقر) near Valencia where he spent most of his life.
He developed nature poetry to a great level of sophistication. His poetry includes a few panegyrics, e.g. to Yusuf ibn Tashfin whom he praised out of thankfulness that he had saved Al-Andalus from chaos by retaking the region of Valencia from the Spaniards after the Conquest of Valencia in 1109. During the occupation of the surroundings of Valencia by the Spaniards (ca. 1100) Ibn Khafaja had fled the city to North Africa. He remained unmarried but had many friends and lived to be over eighty.
According to Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Ibn Khafaja demonstrates, in some of his poems a revolutionary attitude to language, using a vocabulary of great originality, which she describes as "warm and sensuous, obsessed with human intimacy, turbulent and conscious of the violence of life around him in a war-ridden country, awed by nature and eternally mystified both by its beauty and by its permanence vis-avis human mutability."
Composer Mohammed Fairouz set three poems of Ibn Khafajah to music in a cycle of vocal chamber music written for the Cygnus Ensemble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Kha...
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June 3, 2024
استمعت له صوتيا عبر تطبيق منطوق. شعر ابن خفاجة جميل، وألفاظه سهلة جزلة.. خصوصا في نصف ديوانه الأول، في المدح والغزل. ولم يشوه ديوانه سوى عجمة ولحن القارئة لديوانه.
لعل في هذا درس للقائمين على الكتب الصوتية.. برأيي أنها بحاجة لقارئ مختص باللغة العربية، كي لا تشوه أسماع الناس بسيول وأضراب من اللحن!
أربعة نجوم.
لعل في هذا درس للقائمين على الكتب الصوتية.. برأيي أنها بحاجة لقارئ مختص باللغة العربية، كي لا تشوه أسماع الناس بسيول وأضراب من اللحن!
أربعة نجوم.
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