The dating of pre-Islamic literature in the Arab homeland during the twentieth century

This book explores the history of pre-Islamic literature in the Arab world during the twentieth century, where it reviews forty-seven sources from leading or renewed scholarly sources that represented bright guiding signs in the series of the history of pre-Islamic literature. This is done over five chapters, each dedicated to one of the fields of literary history science. This survey analyzes the content of each source accurately, tracing its ideas, issues, and the methodologies used within it, then evaluates these ideas and methods by comparing them with their precedents and subsequent works; all to demonstrate the contribution of each source to the development of its research field, relying on statistical methods in all of this. The aim of this survey is to show the stages of development of the fields of history of pre-Islamic literature in the Arab world during the twentieth century, analyze the characteristics of each stage, and open forward-looking avenues that benefit researchers by guiding them toward some research projects that still need someone to undertake their responsibilities. After completing the research, this book concludes with an appendix presenting a bibliography of all the titles of publications and scientific theses that came to light in the Arab homeland during the twentieth century, focusing on one of the fields of the history of pre-Islamic literature.