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Pre-Islamic poetry is the poetry of the era before Mohamed, and before the written word entered the Arabic world. Everything before that was oral tradition. Transferred orally by chanting, singing, and in poetry. Poetry has always been incredibly important in the Arab world, back then and still now. Contrary to the western world, it is not a 'thing' for intellectuals only, but for everyone, old and young, educated and less educated.
Pre-islamic poetry is what I love, most of all the poetry of one su'luk (brigand) poet in particular: as-shanfara l-azdi
Al-Shanfarā is named as the author of a scattering of individual verses as well as a long passage known as The Ta’iyya of al-Shanfarā preserved in the seminal collection of pre-Islamic verse, the Mufaḍḍaliyāt. His works are discussed in at least twenty medieval and early medieval scholarly commentaries (source, Wikipedia)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shanfara
Pre-Islamic poetry is the poetry of the era before Mohamed, and before the written word entered the Arabic world. Everything before that was oral tradition. Transferred orally by chanting, singing, and in poetry. Poetry has always been incredibly important in the Arab world, back then and still now. Contrary to the western world, it is not a 'thing' for intellectuals only, but for everyone, old and young, educated and less educated.
Pre-islamic poetry is what I love, most of all the poetry of one su'luk (brigand) poet in particular: as-shanfara l-azdi
Al-Shanfarā is named as the author of a scattering of individual verses as well as a long passage known as The Ta’iyya of al-Shanfarā preserved in the seminal collection of pre-Islamic verse, the Mufaḍḍaliyāt. His works are discussed in at least twenty medieval and early medieval scholarly commentaries (source, Wikipedia)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shanfara
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