Literary-Stylistic Features of Arabic Poetry in the 10th-11th Centuries (based on the anthology of “Yatimat ad-dahr”)

Abstract

It’s known that theory about poetic fiqures and tropes was developed by one-day caliph Ibn al-Mu’tazz (861–908). His work “Kitab al-badi’” (“Book about Novity” or “Book of Poetic Figures”) is the first original treatise in poetics. Ibn al-Mu’tazz confirms that the “new style” was not formed by the new poets of the 8th and 9th centuries. Examples of this style occur in the poems of the poets during the period of Jahiliyyah, in the Koran, and in the hadith tradition. Poetic fiqures and tropes are considered very important in the poems of the Arabic poets included in the anthology "Yatimat ad-Dahr," which we used in our investigation. Among these poetic figures, allusion, tasbih, extreme fi-s-sifa, tajnis, ishtigag, radd al-ajz ala-s-sadr, talmih, and mutabaga are common.