|
''This article refers to the Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal. For the building, see Cathedral-Mosque of Córdoba'' ''The Mosque of Cordoba'' () is an eight-stanza Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal, written circa 1932 and published in his 1935/6 collection ''Bāl-e Jibrīl'' ('The Wing of Gabriel'). It has been described as "one of his most famous pieces" and a "masterpiece".〔Schimmel pp. 52, 173〕 It has also been compared to Ahmad Shawqi's Arabic poem ''Siniyyah'' for its locating in Islamic Spain "the embodiment of the ideal, non-territorial Islamic nation" that is, in both poems' world-views, "the source of world history."〔Noorani p. 238〕 ==Context of Composition== Iqbal travelled to England in 1931 to participate in the second and third Round Table Conferences in London.〔Schimmel p. 52〕 He returned to India via Spain (as well as France and Italy), and it was at this time that he visited the eponymous mosque, though by that time it had long since been converted to a cathedral. Nevertheless, it was at what has been described as one of the "high points of his emotional life"〔Mir p. 14〕 that he composed the majority of the poem, as its subtitle clearly indicates: :''"Hispānīya kī sarzamīn bālkhusūs qurtaba men likhī ga'ī"'', or, "Written in the land of Spain, particularly in Córdoba". The visit must indeed have inspired him, as the resultant poem is one of the very few occasions in which Iqbal praises art or architecture. Annemarie Schimmel has observed, :''"He was most critical to the existence of fine arts in Islamic culture, and has admired most those buildings which seem to express the vigorous character of the young and powerful Islam, like the mosque of Cordova, and the Qutub Minar of Delhi. But on the whole the beautiful form as such did not appeal that much to him."''〔Schimmel p. 145〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mosque of Cordoba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|