MDST123 Escaping Purgatory: Music and Devotion in Medieval Europe This course will explore the creative expression of religious belief in the music, poetry, literature, art, and architecture of Medieval Europe. We will begin with the everyday experience of monks, nuns, poets, and street musicians. What role did music play in their lives? Was it limited to religious practice and secular festival...

Arabic poetry has changed after the advent of Islam; that poets started to adopt Islamic concepts and values create a new method rising boasting searching for metaphysical abstract. This vision was accompanied with entity elevated abstract; thus, this influenced poets’ vocabulary, methods, poetic diction. research aims uncover intellectual transformations Islam came up in their influence upon p...

due to its current and global context, poetry arises from the poets’ unconsciousness, the issue that nizami has implicitly and explicitly referred to in his poems. it has been tried, through this article to survey the inspirational or creative essence of poetry in nizami’s viewpoints. he believed that the process of artistic creativity - including poetry - would be performed in two modes, i.e. ...

the current study examines contradictions in muhammad mahdi al-jawahiri’s political poetry. al-jawahiri led most of his life amidst the turmoil caused by the political events and developments that iraq has undergone through different periods beginning with the 1920 revolution led by religious leaders and ending with al-ba‘th party and saddam hussein. al-jawahiri has beencontradictory in his poe...

Oriental poetry is often devoted to romantic, mystical, religious, social, political themes, and written in extremely beautiful soul-shaking tones. Persian poet Shamsiddin Muhammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (1325-1390) considered the father of Near Eastern Middle lyrics. He connects mystical ghazals Mawlana Rumi romantic Saadi, gives freedom verses ghazal creates a new twist it. Poetry methods: Iham Ibha...

INTRODUCTION Creative expression of scientific observations and principles through poetry and other media can enrich medical and science education. This debunks the expectation that science and poetry, for example, are mutually exclusive (Figure 1). Instead of coexisting as parallel lanes without interaction, poetry and science can cross over as one merges lanes. Kurtz and Loewenstein suggest t...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...