Semiotics in the Umayyad Era: The Language of the Eyes in the Poetry of Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah as a Model

Abstract

    Semiotics is one of the modern critical approaches that researchers and critics have addressed in their studies of literary texts. Semiotics is not limited to literature, but has extended to other sciences, due to its high cognitive breadth and ability to absorb those sciences and literature. Semiotics has occupied a distinguished place in linguistic and critical studies and has become an independent approach in analyzing and understanding the depths of literary and scientific texts, due to its direct connection to the inner life of the sign or linguistic reference in the fields of language, art, literature, and other fields such as medicine, mathematics, psychology, and sociology. Our research was divided into three demands, the first of which was about the semiotics of acceptance, and we discussed the semiotics or significance of the eye in the case of satisfaction with the beloved. The second demand came in the semiotics of anger or sadness from the beloved’s actions and