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    [abstract] => The Sufi saints, in their texts, successfully ingrained Love as the destination of spiritual path, to accomplish the Divine. The objective of this study was to focus on the cult of Sufism, in general, and on the Sufi poetry of Fakhr al-Din ʿIrāqī, in particular as reflected in his anthology, Kitāb al-lamaʿāt. Adopting a historical approach, the study analyzed the evolution of Sufi poetry since the beginning, and examined the poetry of ʿIrāqī in the context of Islamic mysticism. This qualitative study adopted an exploratory content analysis method and documentation research to examine the Sufi philosophy as reflected in the sampled poetry of ʿIrāqī. For the realization of this goal, a research was conducted on the available published resources. The documentation survey helped discover the truth of ʿIrāqī ’s poetry in the context of Spiritual love. It was discovered that ʿIrāqī ’s philosophy of Love was based on metaphysical transcendentalism, where spiritual attainment was achieved through formlessness mirrored in the form of Beauty as the manifestation of Love.
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                    [affiliation] => English Department, College of Education, Sawa University, Iraq.
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                    [affiliation] => Department of English, College of education, University of Imam Ja’afar Alsadiq /Iraq.
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                    [givenName] => Israa Abed Jawad
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                    [affiliation] => Department of sciences/ Al-Manara College For Medical Sciences/ (Maysan)/Iraq.
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                    [affiliation] => Mazaya University College/ Iraq.
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                    [affiliation] => College of Science, Department of Forensic Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Dhi Qar, 64001, Iraq.
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.2024.4666
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KITĀB AL-LAMAʿĀT AND SUFISM OF FAKHR AL-DIN ʿIRĀQĪ

Hussein Basim Furaijl
College of Pharmacy/ University of Al-Ameed, Karbala, Iraq .

Fahim Cheffat Salman
English Department, College of Education, Sawa University, Iraq.

Ahmed Ibrahim Abed
Department of English, College of education, University of Imam Ja’afar Alsadiq /Iraq.

Israa Abed Jawad
Department of Medical Laboratories Technology, Al-Nisour University College, Nisour Seq. Karkh, Baghdad, Iraq.

Rasha Abed
Department of sciences/ Al-Manara College For Medical Sciences/ (Maysan)/Iraq.

Alaa A.Gatafa
Mazaya University College/ Iraq.

Haneen Hassan Laith
College of Science, Department of Forensic Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Dhi Qar, 64001, Iraq.

Mahmoud Khdair Abbas
Department of Media -College of Arts, Al-Esraa University/Baghdad, Iraq.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2024.4666

Abstract

The Sufi saints, in their texts, successfully ingrained Love as the destination of spiritual path, to accomplish the Divine. The objective of this study was to focus on the cult of Sufism, in general, and on the Sufi poetry of Fakhr al-Din ʿIrāqī, in particular as reflected in his anthology, Kitāb al-lamaʿāt. Adopting a historical approach, the study analyzed the evolution of Sufi poetry since the beginning, and examined the poetry of ʿIrāqī in the context of Islamic mysticism. This qualitative study adopted an exploratory content analysis method and documentation research to examine the Sufi philosophy as reflected in the sampled poetry of ʿIrāqī. For the realization of this goal, a research was conducted on the available published resources. The documentation survey helped discover the truth of ʿIrāqī ’s poetry in the context of Spiritual love. It was discovered that ʿIrāqī ’s philosophy of Love was based on metaphysical transcendentalism, where spiritual attainment was achieved through formlessness mirrored in the form of Beauty as the manifestation of Love.

Keywords: Love as Divine, Sufism, Metaphysics, Transcendentalism, Spiritualism .

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