قصائد الإستغفار في ديوان ابن سنان الخفاجي (422-466)‎

الملخص EN

This study highlights an important poetry issue in the fifth “hijjri” century.

Abu Ala’a Alma’ari was a pioneer during that period followed by his student Ibn Senan Al-Khaphaji.

The main issue is related to the forgiveness poems which were part of Alma’ari’s poems, for which he designated a complete poetry collection that did not reach us except few lines.

It seems that Al-Khaphaji was influenced by his teacher and he designated four confirmed poems in his published poetry collection.

However the loss of the teacher’s poetry collection made this type of poetry far less studied by the researchers or even to be pointed at its presence.

This is true especially that Ibn Senan was known for his critical rhetoric style, like in his book “The secret of eloquence”, On the other hand his collection of poems gives an idea about this subject.

Who ever mentioned Al-Ma’ari, would highlight his new method and the effect on his student poetry style.

But everyone who mentioned Ibn Senan did not assess carefully this poetry area.

Therefore this article sought to discover these poems first through its poet, second through the influence of Al-Ma’ari poetry method, then by studying and clarifying its characteristics to understand the concept of forgiveness, its origin, and its connection with the real life and the negatives in it.

This poetry was able to describe these negatives, to find it causes and even more to find solutions for it.

These solutions were occasionally indirect and sometime beautifully ambiguous.