the subject of love has been a source of inspiration for poets and men of letters as well as a basic element for many literary works in the world and especially in the oriental literary works. arabic poets have also placed the subject of love as the progenitor of the seminal and enduring works and have presented different interpretations of it depending on their personality, their life experien...

seuyoty was one of the most celebrated medieval authors in arabic literature and during a literary period known as mamlooki era. although anecdote (magama) is a literary type which is written like a story and is based on the beggarliness and trickery of the first character of the story, seuyoty’s anecdotes (maqaamas) are different from the anecdotes of his predecessors. seuyoty’s magamas are no...

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask a...

in the modern era, under the  influence of the western literary criticism has been highly spoken  about organic  unity in arabic ode but many  researchers and critics is established incomplete concept of organic unity in their minds and think it means the ode become confined  to an personal experience or a feeling and while they study it in the poetry they are amaze between logical unity and th...

tradition has primary importance in modern arabic poetry, and invoking traditional elements is a remarkably invaluable poetic source. tradition has many resources among which literary tradition is a rich storehouseon whichpoets deeply rely. literary tradition contains many elements among which poetic figures are probably the most influential and inspirational. this article attempts to study the...

based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

the knowledge of bygone times of a nation and the discovery of the way through which their thought and culture and civilization developed throughout ages, are of great important for the next generations of that nation and their success in future ways of development. unquestionably, the literary works contain the greatest part of the cultural and mental products and legacy of a nation and deserv...

pand-e piran is of the mystical texts has remained from fifth hegira century whose author is unknown. this work contains a set of parables with various subjects. one of the most prominent subjects n this work is sophism and mystics . the source of this work’s parables which is on famous sophists of third hegira century and their life style and majesty has remained unknown and is not mentioned t...