Employing the senses in the poetry of the blind in the Abbasid era (spinning as an example)

Abstract

The study revolved around the employment of the senses in the poetry of the blind in the Abbasid era, and the researcher chose the poetry of spinning as an example, based on the hypothesis that these poets were creative in description despite their blindness, as the description was the main factor in the formation of the poetic structure in their collections, as they lived in an environment rich in singing. And music, they mastered the poetry of spinning with its chaste and frank types, and spinning became the talk of the markets and made it accessible to everyone who loves to hear the conversations of girls, and the researcher tried to depict the features of spinning depending on their poetic achievement and what was written. That despite their loss of the sense of sight, they were able to present honorable models and wonderful images in their poems, and the spinning became ingrained in their poems, in their desire to describe the beloved accurately, and they adopted a vision to form those wonderful images. Pre-Islamic, spinning in pre-Islamic poetry, especially mu'allaqat, which often began by addressing ruins, kinsmen, and remembrance of the beloved. It must be pointed out that Islam did not prohibit love, but it wanted to make it a driving force towards good, just as it wanted to fortify this love and raise it above the level of ignorance, and to exalt this passion so that disobedience does not start.”⁽4⁾ As for spinning in the Umayyad era, “it The development and return of poets multiplying the systems and the development of spinning in the Abbasid era a great development, especially with the multiplicity of manifestations of entertainment and luxury, so the poets approached the pleasures of the world seeking them in all aspects of their lives, we note that the woman who is the focus of spinning has changed in this era, and it no longer matters to the poet that she be Arab freestyle