Body Culture in Majnun Laila’s Poetry

الملخص

The collection of Majnun Laila contains chaste flirtation from the beginning to the end, as we rarely find collections by an Arab poet before or after Islam, like our poet (Majnun Laila), who devoted his collection to describing his beloved and flirting with her, and this description can only be of the body, and the subject of the body constitutes a thorny topic in it. There is a lot of complexity and complexity, and the subject of the body has tempted many researchers in their quest for freedom in one of its forms, which is freedom of the body .
Studies have shown that the body is an ancient concept whose treatment goes back to myths in terms of the difference between the body and the body, the body and the body, and others. In Greek thought and medieval thought, man was divided into two components, soul and body, with the first being immortality and the second being fleeting. So interest was in the soul, especially with the Sufis, and the talk about the value of the body was weaker. Because the idea of the body was linked to taboo things such as women and sex, and with the development of thought, modern sciences were able to raise the value of working with the body and knowing its laws, so the concept of the body became the central concept and received great attention in art, literature, poetry, and philosophy .
Our poet was interested in the body and sanctified it outwardly and inwardly. In our research, we talked about the word “body” with its multiple and conflicting meanings, and we mentioned the closest one according to Ibn Manzur’s view in Lisan al-Arab: “The body is the human body alone among all other animals.” Then we talked about culture from its general perspective and what relates to the culture of the body and its overview. A very brief summary of the poet’s life, and after that we worked on two topics: the first: the external dimension of the body, through which we discussed the details of the body and the functions of the body, sensually and descriptively, in relation to the parts of the body outwardly. As for the second topic: the internal dimension of the body, through which we studied the physical sensation, that is, the physical desire, spiritually and mentally, and we cited the two studies contain highly precise poetic evidence, clear meaning and precise expression. Conclusion: The most important results we reached through this research.