Scientific Seminar
Seminar Presenter: Dr. Abeer Abdel-Sadeq, Professor of Comparative Literature and Criticism at the Department of Arabic Language.
Date: 18/3 / 1438
Title of Activity: Academic Seminar entitled: ""Tawk Al-Hamama” (Pigeon collar) Critical Analytical Study"
Target group: faculty members and female students. Activity Objectives:
1- Identifying the book and its author.
2 – Importance of the book.
3- Reviewing the book.
4- illustrating the reason for writing the book.
5 - identifying the editions of the book
6 – explaining the divisions of the book.
7 – identifying the book chapters.
The book " "Tawk Al-Hamama” (The Dove Collar) by Ibn Hazm Andalusian is one of the masterpieces of medieval literature in the study of love, for its analysis of this phenomenon, its wide human dimensions, and its ability to explore the nature of human beings and their emotions. The book, deemed a masterpiece of literature in the field of love, contains a collection of news, poems and stories of lovers, and studies the passion of human love on the basis of some of psycho analysis through personal observation and experience. Ibn Hazm addresses the feeling of love in a form of stories from an analytical human perspective. The book includes a series of chapters: • Love in Dreams. • Love of First Sight. • Verbal Gestures of Love. • Eye Gesture. • Messaging. • Love Messenger. • Spreading Love. • Prohibitions of Love. • Connectedness. • Trustfulness. • Death.
Ibn Hazm concluded his book with a chapter about the ugliness of the Sin in addition to another about the benefits of virtue, citing verses from the Holy Quran and Hadith concerning the ugliness of the Sin and advantages of the Virtue. Even if the heart a person cannot be blamed for his love of someone, he/she is responsible for his/her own actions. It was as if the author wants to say that "If you lose your heart, try not to lose your mind.
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