Religious Moral Values in the Poetry of Abu Al-"Ala" Al-Maarri in the Light of Cultural Criticism

Religious Moral Values in the Poetry of Abu Al-"Ala" Al-Maarri in the Light of Cultural Criticism
 
Amira Nasser Mahmoud Hassan Mostafa,
Department of Rhetoric and Criticism, Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies (Female Students) in Cairo, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
Email: amiranasser@azhar.edu.eg
amira0nasser@gmail.com
 
Abstract:
Morals play an important role in the progress of countries and nations, because they represent the faithful guardian who protects the achievements of nations from collapse. Society consists of individuals and families; if individuals’ morals are corrupted, families will fracture and society will collapse. This research is a serious attempt to study the religious moral values ​​in the poetry of Abu Al-ˁAlaˀ Al-Maˁarri in the light of cultural criticism and to diagnose cultural patterns, in order to reach the depth of the cultural pattern implicit in it. Cultural criticism has been harnessed for the sake of a new non-stereotypical study. The research consists of an introduction and two sections. The first section - the concept of moral values - deals with: First: the linguistic and terminological definitions of values, their reference and types; second: the linguistic and terminological definitions of morals, their nature, and the relationship of reason to morals according to Abu Al-ˁAlaˀ Al-Maˁarri; third: the concept of cultural criticism. The second topic deals with religious cultural patterns in the poetry of Abu Al-"Ala" Al-Maarri. The conclusion presents the most important results.