Jahiliyyah Arabic Verse: The Dichotomy in Its Poetry

Muritala Alhaji Busoeri; Maruf Suraqat Animashaun

Corpus ID: 55282962

Jahiliyyah Arabic Verse: The Dichotomy in Its Poetry

@article{Busoeri2017JahiliyyahAV,
  title={Jahiliyyah Arabic Verse: The Dichotomy in Its Poetry},
  author={Muritala Alhaji Busoeri and Maruf Suraqat Animashaun},
  journal={Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics},
  year={2017},
  volume={31},
  pages={27-37}
}

Muritala Alhaji Busoeri, Maruf Suraqat Animashaun

Published 2017

Philosophy

Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics

This study is actuated with three notions of vital importance to the understanding of Jahiliyyah verse; firstly, that the concept of the ritualistic function of the sha‘ir is in danger of causing the personal and inward aspects of pre-Islamic poetry to be neglected, by providing a convenient explanation of the apparently stereotypical conventionality of Jahiliyyah poetry; secondly, that the poetic force and importance of the dhikr al-atlal and nasib movements, [1] had not been properly… CONTINUE READING