Cette thèse est une étude comparative entre L. S. Senghor, poète sénégalais d’expression française, et Mohamed Al-Faytouri, poète soudano-libyen d’expression arabe. Elle consiste à révéler et comparer les dimensions spirituelles de leurs poésies. Elle vise également à mettre en évidence la multivalence de la quête qui est indissociable de leur écriture. Leurs œuvres s’articulent sur les rapports féconds et ambigus entre l’humain et le divin, le matériel et le spirituel, les vivants et les morts, le visible et l’invisible. La démarche critique suit les deux poètes dans leur aventure poético-spirituelle qui correspond à la trajectoire du mystique à la recherche du surréel et de l’absolu. La poésie senghorienne se nourrit du souffle animiste et de l’esprit chrétien. La poésie faytourienne est marquée par la spiritualité soufie et par la mystique africaine. Elle renferme aussi des allusions animistes et chrétiennes.Quel que soit le degré d’originalité propre à chacun d’eux, ils ont en commun des thèmes qui forment un ensemble cohérent. Leurs poèmes sont intrinsèquement imprégnés du mysticisme africain qui se manifeste dans l’omniprésence des Esprits et des Ancêtres. Les deux poètes ont le même désir de retourner aux origines, de réintégrer l’innocence originelle et d’entrer en communion avec le sacré ; ils ont la même aspiration à une pureté qu’ils cherchent dans une voie jalonnée de difficultés. Ils s’efforcent de sonder le sens de l’existence et de vivre en harmonie parfaite avec le cosmos. Ils recourent à la médiation de la femme, de la musique, de la nuit et de la nature afin d’établir la communication avec l’univers intime et secret de l’invisible. / This thesis concerns a comparative study between Senghor; a Senegalese poet who writes in French and Mohamed AL-Faytouri, half Sudanese half Libyan poet who writes in Arabic. It targets comparing the spiritual dimensions of their poems. Furthermore, it aims to show the multiple meanings of the quest that cannot be separated from their poems. Their writings describe the search of unity between human and divine, material and spiritual, the living and the dead and finally visible and invisible. Our critical approach would follow the poetic and spiritual adventure of both poets regarding their search for the surreal and the absolute. Senghor's poetry is influenced by the animist and Christian spirituality, while Faytouri’s poetry is inspired by the Sufi spirituality and by African mysticism.In spite of their different origins, they use the same themes that complete each other in establishing a coherent form. The two poets have the same desire to return back to the origins, find the original innocence and have the mystical union. Their search for “purity” in human nature is surrounded by danger. They aim to emphasis on the idea of living in perfect coherence with the Universe. Last but not least, the poets refer to woman’s mediation, music, night and nature to communicate with the intimate and the secret of the invisible.

Thesis (doctoral)--Jāmiʻat Tūnis, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-432).

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The subject of this dissertation is the life achievement of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998). The study follows two tracks, one literary focused on the poetry and biography of the poet, and one historical focused on the concurrent political and social developments in the Arab world in the twentieth century. The two tracks contextualize and elucidate each other to form a mega-narrative of Arab life in modern times. The narrative begins by investigating the intellectual world in which Nizar grew up, continues on to examine his unique personal and familial makeup as well as the social and political context of the times, then proceeds to analyze his poetic achievement as it unfolded. In so doing, a picture emerges of the Arab experience in modern times as reflected in Nizar's own creative experience and tumultuous life.The narrative concentrates initially on Syria, more specifically on Damascus, being the birthplace and the breeding ground where the poet's character was first shaped. But once the poet leaves on his many journeys, a wider perspective is adopted to highlight the many other influences that ultimately went into his making, reverting back to Syria insomuch as it continued to influence the poet's unfolding narrative. Although a chronological line threads through the work starting from the poet's birth in 1923 to his passing in 1998, this line is accentuated throughout the life of the poet by the many places he lived in - cities that left their distinctive mark on his consciousness and poetry. As such, the mega-narrative, much like a journey, sets a background of progressive time against a foreground of places that give meaning to the timeline. In general terms, this study views the life of Nizar Qabbani in three interrelated and overlapping stages: a sensuous period (1923-52) that can be poetically described as local, direct, masculine, confident, and joyful; a period of social responsibility (1952-1973) that can be described as mixed, confused, itinerant, transvestite (both feminine and masculine), rebellious and conformist, happy and unhappy at the same time; and an exilic period (1973-1998): committed, feminine, rebellious, esoteric, melancholic and despairing.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah, 1959. / In Arabic. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-418).

Thesis (doctoral)--Jāmiʻat Tūnis, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-432).

Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah, 1959. / In Arabic. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-418).

Thesis--Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 1973. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-468).

There have historically been numerous connections between the way that medieval Iberian Muslims conceptualized love, lust, and desire and the ways in which Western Europeans have expressed those same concepts, especially as potentially derived from the literary genre of the muwashshah, a particular form of (primarily) medieval Hispano-Arabic poetry. Specifically, the muwashshah and its particular expression(s) of romantic love have helped in causing a series of paradigm shifts (with a definition borrowed from Kuhn to apply to the humanities) within Western ideology. This thesis focuses on the transformative effect of such Hispano-Arabic poetry within Western culture, as well as its connections with the following: Greco-Roman concepts of poetics, earlier Arabic poetry, and post-Hispano-Arabic Arabic poetry. It explores the concept of intersectionality within Hispano-Arabic culture, demonstrating how Hispano-Arabic sources may have influenced European interpretations of romantic relationships as well as how the muwashshah survived within an Arabic context. While mostly existing as a substratum within European culture, the muwashshah has had lasting influence upon European culture. The domains of love and desire provide a particularly apt example, as they involve not simply technology (civilian or military) but demonstrate the origin of a distinct change in the expression of emotion within European culture. At a fundamental level, Western Europe has adopted some of these Hispano-Arabic (as derived from a Muslim viewpoint) values. Regardless of further conflict between Europeans and Muslim cultures, they share parts of a common heritage, expressed differently, but with partial derivations, large or small, from a single source. Such exploration demonstrates the deep interconnectedness of what has heretofore been considered a separated, solely Western (Christian) European culture and that of the Islamic world, derived from one of the original points of intersection between Muslim culture and Western Christian culture, as well as how Arabic culture addressed its outliers.