Animal stories in ancient Arab heritage - selected examples

Section: Arabic language
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
215-230

Abstract

Talking about desert animals formed a wide presence in pre-Islamic poetry, the poet employed them as a resemblance to the camel, and formulated poetic stories not only with the aim of storytelling, or achieving artistic pleasure, or revealing his knowledge of the world of the desert and animals only, but it turned out that they are symbolic stories used by the poet to broadcast more of his philosophy related to the existential issue, and his position on annihilation and age, and the struggle of man and his struggle in life.

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El Kef, S., & سامية. (2025). Animal stories in ancient Arab heritage - selected examples. Journal of Education for the Humanities, 4, 215–230. https://doi.org/10.33899/jeh.2024.183045