Manifestations of Quranic Intertextuality in Women's Poetry in the Islamic Era: A Descriptive and an Analytical Study

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the manifestations of the Qur’anic text in the poetry of women in the Islamic era. Thus, the study seeks to reveal how the Islamic poetess was inspired by her poetry, from the Holy Qur’an: from its words, phrases, meanings, and various themes, by calling the poetic text of the Qur’anic text, for the purpose of deepening and strengthening the meaning of the poetic text.

Moreover, the study dealt with the aspects of this intertextuality and its manifestations, with the Quranic text; Through it, the extent of the poetess' representation in the Islamic era has emerged, as well as the interaction of her texts with the texts of the Holy Qur’an to generate literary production through contact with the cultural heritage and its stock. Further, there might be an interaction between one poetic text of the poetess, the Qur’anic text and the poetic heritage at the same time. The thing that confirmed the ability and the willingness of the poetess to recall all what is considered relevant to her religion, heritage and culture. However, the present study is concerned with investigating the intertextuality with the Quranic text only.

In order to clarify this intertextuality and revealing its manifestations in the text, the study adopted (the descriptive and analytical methods). The descriptive method is used to trace the manifestations of intertextuality in the poetry of women in the Islamic era. However, the analytical method is used to explore the art of intertextuality in those texts and its aesthetic value, as well as the level of semantic production achieved through intertextuality with the Qur’anic text. This has been achieved through discussing four main themes:  the intertextuality with the Qur’anic lexicon and vocabulary, intertextuality with Qur’anic structures, intertextuality with Qur’anic imagery, and intertextuality with reference to the Qur’anic text.