حبسيات ابن زيدون بين الإبداع والتقليد

Ibn Zaydun's prison-poems between novelty and imitation

'habsiyāt' (prison poems) includes a genre of poems that have old precedence in Arabic literature; because, some of the poets were put in the prison and felt bitter taste of it and this bitter experience reflected in their poems and led to the creation of a special form of sense and imaginary of the poet reflected in his poems. This genre, in fact, describes truthful senses and pure emotions of poet and is full of his grief. It also portrays poet's life in prison. Some of these poets in different literary periods with the help of this literary technique portrayed their personal experiences in the prison, among them was Ibn Zaydun, the distinguished Andalusian poet, who due to his slander enemies' backbites, was put into the prison, in charge of participation in a plot against established government and attempts to return ummayyed caliphate. His bitter life in prison reflected in five eloquent elegies scattered in his divān (collection of poems). These poems, despite of their beauty and eloquence, are not yet independently studied. This lack of study persuaded us to examine these elegies connotations by use of a descriptive and analytic method and present the degree of innovations and imitations in his poems to the reader. In addition, we tried to depict the poet's point of view to this genre of lyric poetry. One of the most important results of this study is that the multiplicity of poetic motives in an elegy is among the most important signs of poet's imitation in his habsiyāt. One of his innovations is that he merged beautiful scenes of Andalusian nature to his habsyyāt. Thus, he was not completely imitator in composing habsiyāt, but was somehow an innovator.