Isaf and Naila: The legend of eternal love in the pre-Islamic era

In this book, the Arab thinker Fadil Al-Rubaie returns to the legends of ancient Arabs and their narratives to reveal the unspoken, and to reconstruct them within the context of analyzing and deconstructing the legend of Isaf and Naila, in which he read what the ancient and contemporary overlooked. Al-Rubaie uncovers the symbolic message contained in this legend, and sees it as an embodiment of the doctrine of the sacred marriage. And because the legend of Isaf and Naila revolves around the idea of eternal love that unites the spouses, and binds them in a close bond, many expressions that the ancient narrators remained silent about, as well as those ignored by contemporary scholars, are reflected in it. This book is a bold and unprecedented adventure in historical research, establishing a new Arab anthropological school that will restore the credibility of historical narratives, as they are stories that tell history but do not include it in a sequential and cohesive manner. At the heart of this history, the reader can discover the vast treasury of love symbols in ancient Arab culture and their connection to rituals of supplication to the fertility god.