السّرد العجائبيّ في الأدب القديم: "رحلة ابن بطوطة أنموذجًا"

Abstract

The ‘fantastic’ is one of the terms that has confused many researchers in the
modern era, overlapping with other terms such as the ‘strange’ and the
‘mysterious,’ and ranging between reading the phenomenon and explaining it to
the need of surpassing such explanatory reading. Between this and that, it is
evident that the fantastic surpasses the explanatory reading by extending to the
field of hermeneutics and interpretation, as such reading is pertinent to the
interpretive triangle based on the reader, the text and the recipient. Along these
lines, this paper seeks to shed light on this term and its mechanisms used by Ibn
Battuta, one of the most famous Arab travelers, in his book Masterpiece of the
Principal in the Oddities of the Cities and the Wonders of Travel. In addition, it
seeks to clarify the impact of this term on the book’s recipients so as to reach the
conclusion that reality cannot necessarily explain the phenomenon.