The Doctrinal Guidance of the Artistic Dimension in Kharijite Poetry

Abstract

This study seeks to examine Kharijite poetry through the distinctive artistic features that differentiate it from other poetic forms, in which doctrinal and aesthetic dimensions converge to construct the architecture of the poetic text. The text emerges as a fully realized composition, charged with profound emotional and revolutionary resonances, where the imagery of the sword and shield embodies both combat and conviction. The Kharijites poetry conveys the spread of short poetic passages and the poetic aromatics in between fear and aggression, covered intellectually, doctrinally, and socially, as the ideology of power dissipates. A large portion of this poetry revolves around a central axis: the intricate relationship between the human being, the self, and the other. In this space, women ascended under the force of conviction, bearing their banners into the relentless machinery of war. They were sometimes distanced from their feminine nature in the role they played in the conflict between ideology and maternal reality. Her influence is seen in her justification for sitting, leaving, and leadership, as well as her authority to break the dominance of men. Her influence appears in the doctrinal justification for withdrawal, uprising, and even leadership., with the weakness of their literary heritage, with or without Umayyad intent. The current study examines various scenes of employing the technique of imaginative narration in order to convey the idea with its first techniques, away from the complexity of the mental image that requires the work of the mind, which is not compatible with their fast-paced lives, and their reliance on embodiment images in which the colors of war are closer to the directness of reality. The study relies on technical spectra that frequently reach the point of similarity to emphasize the issue of themes of alienation, yearning, and the urgent desire to transcend the distance between the Creator and the devoted self that seeks this shortening. The scenes of boredom scattered with the life of this world and the longing to catch up with the dead brothers who passed away before, and concepts such as martyrdom, paradise, the Shurat (self-sacrificing fighters), piety, and the doctrine of arbitration, and the presence of lamentation, glorified by asceticism and covered by intertextuality with the sacred text through argumentative approximations,  despite the emotional intensity, overt expressions of weeping remain scarce, and the shortage of wine drinking, modesty, and erotic poetry. We also had to stand on tones of emotion that reflect social and artistic forms of sincerity, even when these tones fade or recede, and the notion of repetition that stopped some researchers from studying it as a discursive phenomenon, which bore fruit in the reader and turned into an effective persuasive argumentative method in discourse with all its vocal, verbal, introductory, and structural levels.