The course (Literature of Early Islam and the Umayyad Dynasty), code (RA221), is taught to students in the second academic year of the Department of Arabic Language, at a rate of two hours per week. In this course, the student studies topics including defining the term “Islamic literature”, studying the political, social, and mental conditions after the advent of Islam, Islam's attitude towards poetry and poets, knowledge of the poets who lived in the Jahiliyyah and realized Islam, the study of the most prominent poets of Islam, the most prominent poetic purposes, the study of the sources of Islamic poetry, the construction of the Arabic poem in Islamic poetry, the characteristics of Islamic poetry, the study of the types and characteristics of Arab Islamic prose, and the study of The art of rhetoric in early Islam. The course aims to:
• Studying the history of literature in the era of early Islam
• Identify the most prominent figures in literature in this era.
Study some literary texts to learn about the most important characteristics of literature.
The value that accrues to students from studying:
• The student's knowledge of the history of literature in the Islamic era and aspects of life in it.
• The student's knowledge of the purposes of Islamic and Umayyad poetry and their issues.
• The student's knowledge of the characteristics of poetry in the Islamic and Umayyad eras.
