The Structure of the Muwashah Poems by Ibn Khatima Al-Ansari Andalusian

Abstract

The study dealt with the structure of the Muwashah by Ibn Khatima Al-Ansari, and it studied it thematically, semantically, and rhythmically. This was done by inspecting the two major types of the Muwashah genre: al-Tamm (complete) and Al-Aqra (incomplete), and their most important purposes such as love, winery, description of nature, asceticism, and mysticism. The study then focused on the prosodic structure of these poems based on compliance with the laws of Arabic poetry. This was detailed by highlighting the rhythms, rhymes, and phonetic structure of these poems, linking them to the significance and music of the Muwashah genre. The study had several conclusions: the complete type (Tamm) is the predominant one; most of them followed a non-poetic system, and their rhyme schemes ranged between the free and the limited, The study adopted a structural constructive method, because of its role in studying the construction of Muwashah and analyzing its rhythm and connotations.