The self and the other in Andalusian Sufi poetry

Abstract

    In this research, the researchers aim to shed light on the self and the other in the Sufi experience. Andalusia has been known throughout its long centuries for many artistic phenomena that undoubtedly contributed to defining and enriching its contents, and one of these phenomena is Sufism. Poetry and Sufism are two close fields in one world, which is the world of the spirit hidden behind the world of reality. Sufism is one of the achievements of human thought that links it to various knowledge in a comprehensive manner. The Sufi experience and the poetic experience alike are in reality a life and emotional psychological experience that reveals the reality of life.

    The daily life and the feelings that crystallized from it in the poet’s conscience and a statement of the extent of the effectiveness of the ego and the other in this poetry. I attribute this to the poetic experience and the revelation of the accompanying manifestations that resulted that helped to realize this ego and its impact on the other through divine love, Sufi wine, nature, society, symbol and its effectiveness in expressing this. The other.