In pre-Islamic poetry, the book and the issue - Taha Hussein

In this book, a research on the history of Arabic poetry was conducted, which was new at the time; it was addressed by Taha Hussein, so it was a research that people had not encountered before. The reason for that was his doubt about the value of pre-Islamic poetry until doubt persisted with him, so he began to research, think, read, and contemplate until all of that led him to the conclusion that the absolute majority of what is called pre-Islamic poetry is not from the pre-Islamic era at all, but is Islamic and represents the life of Muslims, their tendencies, and their desires more than it represents the life of the pre-Islamic Arabs. For this purpose, Taha Hussein discussed during his research a variety of issues, all of which ended with one conclusion: this previous theory. To prove his theory, he examined several issues, the first of which was the internal political life of the Arab nation after the emergence of Islam and the halt of the conquest movement, and the connection between this life and poetry. Then he discussed the condition of those people who were overwhelmed and appeared after the conquest in Persia, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Egypt, and the relationship between this condition and the Arabic language and literature. Afterwards, he talked about the emergence of religious and linguistic sciences and the relationship between language and literature, and he addressed the Jews in Arab lands before and after Islam, and the relationship between these Jews and Arabic literature. He then moved to Christianity to clarify its spread in Arab lands before Islam and the influences it had on Arab intellectual, social, economic, and literary life, and the connection between all this and Arabic literature and poetry. He then discussed the external political influences that affected Arab life before Islam, which had a very strong impact on pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and on the poetry that was attributed to and added to the pre-Islamic Arabs. All these discussions ultimately led him to the conclusion that the absolute majority of what is called pre-Islamic poetry is not from pre-Islamic poetry at all. 10th Edition | 2019 Publication Year: 2007 Cover Type: Paperback Size: 21 × 14