Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Capezio, Oriana

Titel

IL TARQĪṢ NEL DONDOLIO DELLE PAROLE

Ist Teil von

• Quaderni di studi arabi, 2012-01, Vol.7, p.247-260

Ort / Verlag

Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The historical and folk heritage of a people also passes through the songs for children, a concrete record of the traditions and rituals of a culture. In addition to the traditional lullabies, aġānī hadhadat al-atfāl, there is in the Arab culture a presence of another form of singing for children that binds to the movement of the body and to the act of invocation. The word tarqīṣ shows in fact a specific invocation, not exclusive of the mothers but rather involving the circle of the close relatives (grandparents, uncles, cousins) and the nurses with whom the children create an exclusive relationship. From the root RQS (dance-move-exciting) derives the word of action tarqīṣ which is used to express the movement of dandling or making a child dancing whilst lifting into the air. This movement is accompanied with words in verses calling for him protection for an healthy and prosperous growth and safeguard from envy and malevolence. In the Arab tradition many tarqīṣ involve the figure of the Prophet when he was a child. So we find the invocations made by the grandfather of the Prophet Abū al-Muṭṭalib around the Ka'ba or those of his nurse Ḥalīma and sister of milk Šaymā'. In addition to these, we have reports of tarqīṣ that the Companions of the Prophet used to sing to their children as well as those of some famous Arabs, especially the Caliphs, or Bedouin nomads of the desert. The combination of these invocations is a legacy of the folk culture that enriches the Arab culture of a particular literary form, usually a short poem in raǧaz.