Abstract Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaq...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

This paper tackles the cultural patterns in Abu Firas Hamdani's captivity poetry, namely Ra’iyyah poem. The poet, who is normally a part of ideological, cultural, or social paradigms, represents and regenerates, consciously unconsciously, patterns, especially those represented by his predecessors their literary works, whether prose verse. Antonyms displacement, many other linguistic tools, allo...

Arabic poetry has changed after the advent of Islam; that poets started to adopt Islamic concepts and values create a new method rising boasting searching for metaphysical abstract. This vision was accompanied with entity elevated abstract; thus, this influenced poets’ vocabulary, methods, poetic diction. research aims uncover intellectual transformations Islam came up in their influence upon p...