The Concept of Love between Philosophy and Sufism in the Arab Theater

Abstract

The concepts of love in human life vary among all the subjects including the characteristics of love, its tools, and related concepts, whether this is spiritual, Sufi, or realistic, between the lover and his beloved. The research contains four sections: section one presents the methodological framework, the research problem which rests on: “What are the intellectual and spiritual principles of the concept of love in the Arabic theatrical text?” While the importance of the research lies in establishing the foundations, values ​​and philosophy of the concept of love in the Arab theatrical text. The research aims to identify the philosophy of love behaviorally and spiritually in the body of the Arab theatrical text. As for the limits, a decade from (1995-1998) for three different countries is chosen. Section two includes two subsections related to the indicators of the theoretical framework, the first of which is love in the divine religions, while the second deals with the love in philosophy and mysticism according to Al-Ghazali, Ibn Arabi and Ibn Hazm. Section Three includes the research community which is chosen intentionally in accordance with the topic of the research. The research adopts the descriptive and analytical approach as a research methodology and is based on the indicators of the theoretical framework as a tool for the research to analyze the sample and arrives at the research results. Section four tackles the playwright's use of prose used for understanding and communicating behavioral and realistic love and sometimes poetic language is also used for Sufi spiritual dialogue.