THE ALBA BETWEEN THE POETRY OF ABU FIRAS AND PROVENCAL POETRY

Abstract

The research determines its scientific hypothesis as it sees that there is a similarity between the Subahiyat (Morning poems) of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani and the Al-fajiryat (Dawn poems) that came in the Muwashahat, Azjal and Alba poetry or the songs of Dawn in the Provencal poetry due to acculturation and the movement of literature, so the researcher conducts a comparative critical study to test his scientific hypothesis. Andalusia has known Muwashahat as a result of cultural pluralism and civilizational mixing, and rather than searching its origins and roots in which conflicting points of view exist, we discover that it arose developed from the arts of oriental poetry, in addition to what the Andalusian environment prepared for it from factors of prosperity due to civilizational and cultural development. So, a new purpose appeared in the Muwashahat known as Fajriat, similar to what later appeared in Provençal poetry and was known as the Alba. We found a similarity between it and what Abu Firas composed of stanzas called the Subahiyat (mornings), which was a fleeting moment in which the poet met his beloved, and the dawn comes to mark the end of that happy moment. This is what brought the two topics in Arabic and Provencal literature together, with some differences in the text that occurred during its long journey outside the borders of its country of origin.