Ejemplos de la imagen de la madre en la tradición arabo-islámica

• Autores: Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa
• Localización: Anaquel de estudios árabes, ISSN 1130-3964, Nº 21, 2010, págs. 221-234
• Idioma: español
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  • Examples of the image of the mother in Arabic-Islamic heritage
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  • español

    La madre es el núcleo de varias obras literarias universales como la novela del ruso Máximo Gorki "La Madre", o algunas obras de otros autores como el francés François Mauriac, el checo Karel Capek y el alemán Bertold Brecht. El Islam la sitúa en un lugar destacado; tanto el Corán como la tradición profética mandan que sea tratada con gran humanidad por sus sacrificios por los hijos en el embarazo, la lactancia y la educación. La poesía árabe le consagra muchos textos que elogian su papel y reconocen su labor y sus virtudes. Tanto autores clásicos como contemporáneos han escrito poemas en su alabanza como Abu Firas al-Hamdani, al-Sharif al-Radi, al-Ma'arri, al-Qarawi, Ibrahim Mundir y 'Abd Allah al-Baraduni. Asimismo, la novela árabe aborda la figura de la madre en sus diferentes facetas, aunque domina su imagen de mujer sumisa, obediente y semianalfabeta. Otro tipo de textos breves escritos por autores como Yubran, Amin Mushriq, al-Mazini..., son quizá los más profundos y expresivos en describir los sentimientos de la madre hacia sus hijos. Y por último, la palabra madre se ha convertido en árabe en sinónimo de "origen" o "raíz", usándose en su significado metafórico para denominar nombres propios o conceptos, como "Umm al-Qurà" (La Meca), Umm Qash'am (la muerte) o "Umm al-Jaba'ith" (el alcohol).

  • English

    "Mother" is the core - centre represented in many international literary texts. The Russian author Gorki's novel "Mother" took the lead among the best international literary works. He was followed by many other writers in various cultures. They took the notion "mother" as a basic topic in their works such as François Mauriac and the Czeck author Karl Capek and the German Berthold Brecht. In Islam "the mother" enjoys a magnificent status since the holy Qur'an and the prophet's tradition urge on treating her kindly in a highly respective - humanitarian way, for her great sacrifices and her caring for her children during pregnancy, breast-feeding and bringing up. Many texts in Arabic poetry were devoted to "the mother"; glorifying her role and her position in recognition of her graces. Prominent old and modern Arab poets wrote poems expressing gratitude and high appreciation of "the mother". Among them are Abu Firas Al-Hamdani, Al-Shareef Al-Radhi, Al-Muaari, Al-Shaaer Al-Qurawi (Rasheed Saleem Al-Khouri), Ibraheem Munther, Abdulla Al-Bardooni and many more. Arabic novels deal with "the mother" and drawn her portrait in various states that are overlapping and surpassing her traditional role as "subjugated, obedient and semi literate". Many texts occur as a stream of consciousness that are probably the most effective literary works in reflecting "mother's" portrait as being truthful in expressing and conveying her emotions and love towards her children and family. Among the Arab authors of such texts are Gibran Khaleel Gibran, Ameen Mushriq and Al- Mazini. Finally, the word "mother" in Arabic was used to mean the root or origin and thus it became the nickname for many notions and names of places such as Um Al-Qura (Mecca), Um Qashaam (death), Um Al-Khabaaeth (alcohol).