Al-Muthaqab Al-Abdi and the Semantic Concealment Game in the Poem ʺA-Faatim Qabla Baynki Mattiainiʺ A Study in Cultural patterns and textual Interpretations

Abstract

The study aims to elucidate the concealed cultural patterns in al-Muthaqab al-Abdi's poem "A-Faatim Qabla Baynki Matti'ini," extracting its semantic components.

It adopts cultural criticism methodology, identifying patterns (transcendent ego, expert traveler, rhetorical) within poet/power and poet/traveler dynamics.

Core issues focus on how patterns enable semantic concealment, intensifying meanings through allusion rather than declaration.

It deconstructs challenge, greed, geographic expertise, and faunal/floral knowledge as unconscious repressions.