Arabic Literature: An Overview of Poetry of Jahliyyah Period

Abstract
Muslim Religious Scholars have given the name to pre commencement of prophethood period in Arabian literature as a period of heathenism or paganism but at the same time we learn that seven great eulogies were hanging in the sacred house in Mecca which is attributed to House of God.However great Arab Scholar Taha Hussain(1889-1973) rejected the authencity of these larger poems and called a fiction.However several books and articles have claimed and appreciated these as great pieces of poetry. In Urdu literary world credit goes to Muhammad Kazim((1926-2014) who contributed a serial of articles in a prgressive literary Journal "Fanoon"[editor: Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi]highlighting the salient features of poets and poetry with examples.PhD scholar Nazia Rahat has completed her doctoral thesis under the guidance of Dr.Anwaar Ahmad and Dr.Rubina Tareen based upon the comparative study of Muhmmad Kazim and Professor Khursheed Rizvi(1942)regarding introduction of Arabic Literature to the world of Urdu.

Robina Tareen, Anwaar Ahmad, Nazia Rahat. (2017) عربی ادبیات۔۔۔۔۔۔"دور جاہلیت" کی شاعری پر ایک نظر, Tahqeeq Nama, Volume 21, Issue 1.
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