Diminution in Ibn Al-Faridhs Poetry (died 632 H.)

Abstract

The present paper  sheds light on an interesting phase of the creative poetic phases that is diminutive in the poetic texts of the Abbasid poet Ibn Al-Faridh. The researcher thinks that the diminutive, used by this poet, is divided into three kinds: the diminutive of proper noun, the diminutive of places, and the diminutive of times. Hence, by these kinds, one can identify the purpose of diminutive or the accurate meaning that can be captured. The study arrives at that diminutive has a particular representation in positions and a general representation used by the heritage books.

to proceed, the observer of Arabic poetry in the Abbasid era finds himself in front of a high literary language, which allows the recipient to fly in different atmospheres of beauty, in which he hunts what he wants from the various faces of creativity and the various secrets of rhetoric. The remarkable diminutive in the eyes of the recipient in the poetic texts of the Abbasid poet Ibn al-Farid, and the researcher believes that the diminutive according to Ibn al-Farid (d.632 AH) is divided into three pillars of which each corner has a special character, namely:

First: the diminutive  of proper nouns  particularly persons.

The second: diminutive  of places.

Third: diminutive of the times.

 In these places  the purpose of diminutive or the meaning that it performs could be noticed, and it sound that diminutive has a special semantic meaning in some places and a general semantic meaning in other places. However, one of the indications that suggests the poet intention behind being    very keen on his style of diminutive is   expressed clearly in these lines of verse. He said:  (Al Masrah)