Animal stories in ancient Arab heritage - selected examples
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.