Weapons and Equipment of War in the Andalusian Poetry in Lesanod-Din Ibnul-Khatib’s Diwan: A Semantic and Descriptive Study

Abstract

This study aims to identify the number of war and its equipment in the Diwan of Lesanod-Din Ibnul-Khatib, which is a masterpiece of the Andalusian poetry that outlined an authentic Andalusian Islamic tradition. A descriptive semantic analytical method was applied in this study. This study discusses the types of tools, equipment, weapons with their names and features, and their connotations in poetry, such weapons as the sword and its diverse names in Arabic with their different connotations. Similarly, the study delineates the spear and its names with their connotations, and so the shield, the bow, and the arrow, in addition to presenting other terms such as the catapult, the army, the fleet and horses. The results of the study revealed that Ibnul-Khatib used the personification element in his presentation of the war weapons. The results also showed that he was influenced by the Andalusian nature, and that the war weapons and equipment have significant connotations in poetry in which the poet used them as one lexeme, or used the sword with the spear or used two attributes of the sword together in order to reach the meaning and the intended meaning supported by aesthetical devices and rhetoric.