Modernity and Sufi cognation in Adonis “ketāb Altahūlat wa Alhigra fi ʔaqalīm Allaīl wa AlNahār” As a model Modernity and Sufi cognation in Adonis “ketāb Altahūlat wa Alhigra fi ʔaqalīm Allaīl wa AlNahār” As a model

Abstract

The Sufi experience, at its core, is based on a subjective stance; this subjective stance drives its possessor to uncover their truth and essence in a profound journey characterized by the self, which shifts from state to state and from status to status, with the goal of ascending in degrees and achieving the rank of the knower. This research aims to study the impact of this vision—stripped of its religious dimension—on the poetic voice of Adonis. It will then discuss the influence of the idea of the perfect human, as presented by Sufism, on Adonis's poetic self, highlighting the degree of divergence or convergence between them and modernity. Furthermore, an analysis was conducted on the dimensions of this vision in his poetry collection "ketāb Altahūlat wa Alhigra fi ʔaqalīm Allaīl wa AlNahār", in a serious attempt to uncover the efficacy of poetry in cognation across many texts in the collection, and how Adonis has established the idea of the openness of being to existence within the Sufi vision he embraced.