Days of the Arabs

Days of the Arabs (Arabic: أيام العرب, romanized: Ayyām al-ʿArab) is a collection of the oldest extant Arabic narratives.[1][2][3][4][5]

It contains stories of raids and battles among Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam.[2] The text is prosimetric, containing alternating passages of prose and poetry.[2] Passages of poetry composed by the protagonists were included within prose stories, or after by the stories' transmitters or compilers.[2]

References
  1. Jones, Alan (2007-12-01), "Ayyām al-ʿArab", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2024-02-19
  2. Reynolds, Dwight F. (2022), Sykäri, Venla; Fabb, Nigel (eds.), "Rhyme in Arabic Oral Poetry", Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song, vol. 14, Finnish Literature Society, pp. 47–62, ISBN 978-951-858-587-2, JSTOR j.ctv371cp40.5, retrieved 2024-02-19
  3. Caskel, Werner (1930). Aijʻam al-ʻArab: Studien zur altarabischen Epik (in Polish).
  4. Lichtenstädter, Ilse (1935). Women in the Aiyâm al-ʻArab : a study of female life during warfare in preislamic Arabia. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
  5. Egbert, Meyer (1970). Der historische Gehalt der Aiyām al-'Arab. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.


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