ARABIC LITERARY GENRES

LITERAT
URE
It includes all the literary production in prose and poetry of the
speakers of the Arabic language using the Arabic alphabet

HISTORIC CONTEXT: YO,

-The Jahiliyyah period was one of religious
ignorance

- Knowledge was transmitted orally. The little written

evidence that it was from the 6th century.

It marks the end of the Jahiliyyah and pre-Islamic literature j

Meter and rhyme:

The Koran is the holy book of religion After the beginning of written records, poems were
The Koran and Islam Islamic contains word spoken by the marked with particular patterns of rhyme and meter.
God Muhammad, was influenced by
Each line is divided into two half-lines, the second of
Arabic
which ends with a rhyming syllable that is used
classic.
throughout the poem.

With the advent and spread of Islam, the Categories and forms
tradition of Arabic literature began andThe first was the qit'ah ("segment") dedicated to a single
developed from the 7th to the 10th theme or composed and performed for a particular
centuries. occasion.
CHARACTERISTICS
Genres and themes
Firstly, there is the panegyric (madh), which consisted of
praise to the tribe and its elders.
Then, another purpose is the opposite satire (daughter')
of praise. Finally, there is the praise of the dead, or
ARABIC
elegy. LITERATURE

• Compilation and manuals

• Facts, advice, ideas, stories
• Biography, history and geography
• Stories of traveling Arabs
• Diaries
- Events that occurred around the author
• Epic literature
- Fables, proverbs, Jihad stories, moral and

humorous stories
• Maqmat
- Be a prose and poetry and tell fiction and non-
fiction
• Romantic Poetry
- Elements related to courtly love
• Theater plays
- Part of the modern era

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