Nezar Yasin Rababah

Literary Language in Early Islamic Poetry: From Pre-Islamic Bravado to Refined Expression

This study examined how poetic language among the Arabs transformed after the advent of Islam, and how the word, which in the pre-Islamic era was a tool of pride and warfare, became, in the Early Islamic Era, a means of education and refinement. Poetry was not abolished; rather, it redirected linguistic expression towa...