The discourse of self-experience in The Dove's Neck-Ring about Love and Loversby Hazm Al-Andalusi (5th century AH)between its communicative and literary functions

Résumé

The article addresses the topic of the discourse of personal experience in its tension between the
communicative function, represented in the educational and persuasive aspects of the discourse, and the creative literary function, which gives the speech about the Self additional dimensions and a special semantic
depth. The article includes an introduction that defines the concept of personal experience as a subject for
both literary and non-literary discourse.
We then move on to discuss the issue of employing personal experience in ancient Arabic literature,
the value of this employment, how to interpret it, and then highlight the ingenuity of this element in the book
Tawq al-Hamama, which combines the characteristics of educational discourse based on a scientific,
descriptive, and analytical approach on the one hand, and literary discourse based on rhetoric and expression,
on the other hand.
The rest of the article is divided into two main sections, in which we trace the manifestations of the
two intertwined functions in Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi's discourse on personal experience, extract the most
prominent examples illustrating them, and analyze the multiple dimensions inherent in each.