AL-ʼAWĀʼIL IN ARABIC LITERATURE: LITERARY-HISTORICAL AND GENRE DETERMINANTS Cover Image

AL-ʼAWĀʼIL U ARAPSKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI: KNJIŽEVNOHISTORIJSKE I ŽANROVSKE ODREDNICE
AL-ʼAWĀʼIL IN ARABIC LITERATURE: LITERARY-HISTORICAL AND GENRE DETERMINANTS

Author(s): Berin Bajrić
Subject(s): Islam studies, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu
Keywords: adab; Arabic literature; prose forms; narrative; primal events;

Summary/Abstract: As beings seeking knowledge, from time immemorial people have asked many questions about beginnings and origins, and over time this resulted in literary/ prose forms that sometimes entirely and sometimes partly dealt with origins and beginnings. The desire to discover the beginnings and original roots of things and events is considered to be deeply embedded in the historical and cultural memory of Semitic peoples, including Arabs. This paper aims to present and analyse this type of prose form in classical Arabic literature and indicate its main literary-historical and genre determinants.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 43-65
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bosnian