ظاهرة العطلة عند أصحاب الأقلام في الأندلس في القرن الخامس الهجري

Abstract EN

This study deals with the phenomenon of unemployment among the secretarial class in al-Andalus during the 5th century A.

H, as it is portrayed in the literary epistles and maqamat, in the light of socio-psychology.

The study reveals that this phenomonon lies in qualified secretaries losing their services in secretarial offices, and the frustration they sustained in looking for services under the political, economic and social conditions that led to this phenomenon and which affected several types of secretaries during the period under discussion.

One can conclude ttfat the study reveals that this phenomenon left a profound impact on the rhymed prose of many Andalusian men of letters, and offered them opportunities to express strong sentiments about suffering from alienation, anxiety and fear, which, subsequently highlightened main issues related to this phenomenon, viz.

marginalizing the qualified secretaries and recruiting the unqualified people as secretaries in court's bureaucracy.

This had resulted in suffering from poverty and powerless detachment on behalf of the qualified.

The study also reveals that the secretaries' reactions towards this phenomenon of unemployment were different, ranging from retreatism-involvement, apathy, and conformity with the society.

In addition, it emplasizes the unstable life of the Andalusian men of letters in particular, and provides a clear evidence on how the rhymed prose reflected the range of interaction between the- writers' literary experience and the life of Andalusian society.