Quran and Poetry
-The Influence of the Quran on the Poems of Muhadram Poets-
Arab society, which experienced large-scale religious and social transformation in the short span of twenty-five to thirty years following the advent of Islam, also experienced a noticeable transformation in its unique cultural phenomenon, poetry. The pre-Islamic poetry of the Age of Ignorance was replaced by a poetry adorned with Islamic motifs. Consequently, Umayyad and Abbasid poetry, considered the continuation of Islamic poetry, reached a level rivaling the pre-Islamic poetry of the Age of Ignorance.
The reason why we chose Islamic motifs in the poems of muhadram poets as the subject of our study is to try to measure the position of their poems vis-à-vis the Qur'an and the degree to which they were influenced by the Qur'an during the conversion of some poets to Islam, in parallel with the society that entered the Islamization process during the transition from the pre-Islamic period to the Islamic period.
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