intro to arabic literature
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ARABIAN LITERATURE
ARABIA “The Cradle of Islam”
Mediterranean Sea
Arabian Sea
SAUDI ARABIA
YEMEN
OMAN
KUWAIT
UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
QATARBAHARAIN
Arabia Peninsula
Red SeaGulf of Aden
Gulf of OmanPersian
Gulf
There are two holy cities found in Saudi Arabia
ARABIA “The Cradle of Islam”
MECCA MEDINA
ARABIAN LITERATURE
Arabian Literature is rich and varied, mostly made of
Poems, anecdotes, tales or romances, historical accounts and philosophies.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
Arabs possessed a highly develop poetry transmitted orally from
generation to generation.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
Qasidahs or elaborated odes.It reflects and praise the customs and values of the desert environment which they arose.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
The written literature, began to be known with the
collection of KORAN, the sacred book of Islam.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
The Three Periods of Written Arabic
Literature
ARABIAN LITERATURE
UMAYYAD PERIOD (A.D. 661 -750)
Arabic prose was limited primarily to grammatical treatises, commentaries
on the Koran and the compiling of stories about Mohammed and his
companions.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
UMAYYAD PERIOD (A.D. 661 -750)
GHAZALS or love lyric, wine songs and hunting poems rose during this period.
These describes the conditions and manners found in places conquered by
Islam.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
ABBASID PERIOD(A.D. 750 - 1258)
Regarded as the “Greatest Period of Development and Achievement”
ARABIAN LITERATURE
ABBASID PERIOD(A.D. 750 - 1258)
ADAB, an Arabic prose sprinkled with poetry and utilized rhyme prose
known as “saj”The style of Koran came to existence.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
ABBASID PERIOD(A.D. 750 - 1258)
Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights,
Contains inventive type of folk literature, which based on the recitation
of rawis.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
MODERN PERIOD19th Century - Present
Arabic Literature declined during the Ottoman Turkish domination, however the Renaissance Period took place, so then Arabs revived their classical genres and they came into contact to
Western Literature and Civilization.
ARABIAN LITERATURE
MODERN PERIOD19th Century - Present
The 20th Century witnessed the real birth of modern Arabic Literature.
Short story and Novel came to being in this period.
