La queja y la elegía, dos elementos fundamentales de la melancolía en el Dīwān de Ibn al-Jaṭīb

Abstract

Sadness found in the Diwan de Ibn al-Jatib can be attributed to two fundamental elements: elegy and complaint for the death of his close friends and beloved ones such as his wife Iqbal, as well as for the suffering caused by his political enemies, misfortunes, and positions; all these influenced very much his output in terms of the melancholy and the imbalance to be uncovered throughout many features in his behaviour.