Psychological Conflicts and Their Implications for the Islamic Poet

Abstract

This study aims to uncover the conflicts that accompanied the Islamic poet in his poetic journey and the extent of the impact that became evident in his poetic works. These conflicts had a significant impact on the poet's self, making those texts carry within their letters the events and occurrences of that period. Through these texts, the poet was able to provide the audience with a broad understanding of those events and the fluctuations and influences that accompanied his life, placing him in a whirlpool of psychological conflicts that had a dominant effect. Thus, the poet expressed in his letters what troubled his soul as a result of those psychological conflicts, revealing clear and explicit indications in his texts, which were the primary conveyer of that self and the experiences it lived through in its era.

Islamic literature in general, and poetry in particular, had a significant impact on the audience of its time, as it embodied an important period of history. It was a live transmitter and illustrator of all the events that occurred, documenting the impact of the poets' lives at that time. The psychological crises that accompanied the Islamic poet in his poetic journey had a great resonance for the self, as they represented the events of life that the poet lived through and was affected by. Therefore, their poetic texts came loaded with those crises and conflicts that their era witnessed. The selected poetic texts were from a group of poets who lived in the same period—the Islamic era—and the mechanism of the soul's response to changes during their lives. They might experience internal conflict at times and external conflict at other times, creating a kind of opposition between those conflicts and their psychological indications.