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...

the menhaj al-bolagha and seraj al-odaba by hazem qartajeni is one of the most effective books on rhetoric and theory of arabic poetry. although he was grown up in an environment influenced by ibn rushd and is considered his indirect student, in this book (with a rhetoric and philosophical style) he is under the influence of ibn sina in founding and presenting the theory of arabic poetry. witho...

â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...


 Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. By Geert Jan van Gelder. Arabische Studien, vol. 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. xv + 399. €78.

color displays the aesthetic aspects of a work of art ,considered as one of its vital elements in artistic structure having a direct implications of the poet's artistic vision, and in most cases, refers to the poet's feelings, being a source of vitality and activity, comfort and reliability, symbolic of the different feelings of sadness and joy. due to its  artistic, psychological, so...

traditionalists of european literature in the sixteenth century ad, were trying to restore that literary heritage due to technical and human theme of the ancient greek literature since modernists began to confront the traditionalists by the the end of the seventeenth century and invited them to avoid old formats and to define literature and poetry in another way. since then, persian and arabic ...