Comparative Literature
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Manifestation of Khayyam's Meditation in Central Kurmanji Kurdish Poetry (1920–1970)
Karwan saleem qaitaran, Rizgar Abdulla ahmed
Khayyam’s philosophy is extensive and profound, any attempt to define its boundaries is inadequate. Since, it is universal and it cannot be associated to a single nation or country. The poets who enter this field with distinctive ability are few but inspiring. Khayyam’s international fame reached its peak after Edward FitzGerald’s translation of his quatrains in the late nineteenth century. Besides, the universal themes of his quatrains brought him worldwide recognition, and his aesthetic ability compensated his brevity. One cannot overlook Khayyam’s impact on his neighboring Kurdish poets due to geographical and linguistic affinity. This research is titled, “Khayyam’s Philosophy as Depicted in the Middle Kurmanji Kurdish Poetry (1920-1970)”. It is a comparative investigation utilizing descriptive-analytical methodology, based on the principles of the French school of comparative literature. The study compares Khayyam’s selected quatrains that influenced certain poems of middle Kurmanji Kurdish poets during the years 1920 and 1970. It aims is to reveal Khayyam’s influence on these poets through analyzing the poetic instances. One of the notable conclusions of the research is that, Khayyam’s influence on some of these Kurdish poets was not random rather it was intentional adopted for certain purposes. At times, they even artistically recreated and enhanced Khayyam’s ideas in their poems.
Volume 12 · Issue 2 · April 2025The Image of the Kurdish Individual in the novel Through the Desert by Karl May
Yahman Mohammad Abdulrahman, Gahin Nizar Ibrahim, Luqman Mohmmed Abdulrahman
Imagology is one of the modern and important topics in comparative literary studies, the importance of this topic is in the fact that it is a connecting bridge that introduces two nations to one another via researching each other’s literature. The thoughts, images and obstacles in the mind towards the other are rectified, learning about the other’s literature in reality is a means to gain cultural awareness of different cultures. Imagology is not only thinking about the image of the other but it involves the transference of knowledge and the reciprocation of ideas, and comparison is the mental aspect to open horizons of knowledge and rectifying the prejudices towards the other and reassessing the other in the becoming place. Psychological, political and historical areas of a culture can be learnt via Imagological researching of a literary text. The hypothesis of this research involves how the image of the Kurdish individual has been portrayed in a foreign literary text, namely, (Through the Desert) by Karl May; how the images have been portrayed? This research is titled “The Image of the Kurdish Individual in the Through the Desert novel by Karl May”. The result showed that the image of the Kurdish individual is that of a generous, brave but persecuted individual.
Volume 8 · Issue 2 · June 2021Comparison of Mahwi's and Plato's Philosophical Texts on Theology
Saya Rashid Ahmed Raq, Chaware Neamat Saleh, Abdelrahman Jalal Othman
This study deals with the comparison between Mahwi’s poems and Plato’s philosophical texts on theology. It draws the assimilations and the differences between both views by analyzing Mahwi’s selected poems and Plato’s selected works including; The Timaeus and The Republic. It shows how a Kurdish poet delivers a philosophical idea within his poetry, and that great poetry is often deeply philosophical. The paper also proves that there is a strong relationship between literature and philosophy. However, many do not see the correlation between them, but if we look back into history, we see that some philosophers delivered their philosophical ideas through one of the literary genres. Such as Voltaire, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Maulana Jaladini Romi, and Plato himself at first attempted to write tragedy in verse and he was reading great Greek poetry.