آداب الرافدين (Sep 1981)
Stories of the battle in the eastern front
Abstract
Literature was strongly linked to battles and wars in ancient Arab times, and Arabic poetry played a prominent role in the conquests, conquests and battles of the trenches. In his book, the classes of poets, Ibn Salam linked between the spread of poetry in the Arab tribes and between wars and battles, attributing the emergence of poetry in the Rabia tribe and its prosperity there to the war of Al-Bassous. After the war dwelt, poetry moved from it to other tribes in which wars raged, and Ibn Salam attributed the lack of poetry in Makkah and Taif in the pre-Islamic era to its failure to fight wars that inflame feelings and inflame souls. Literature, especially poetry, played an important role in the wars waged by the ummah. Arabia is against its enemies, so the poetry of Abu Tammam, Al-Mutanabi, Abu Firas Al-Hamdani and others emerged. The folk stories embodied the Arab heroics as in the biography of Antara, Saif bin Dhi Yazan, Abu Zaid al-Hilali, and the hadiths of Usama bin Munqith. Modern Arab literature played an important role in inciting freedom from colonialism, and the Arab literary resistance was associated with the call for Arab unity to achieve the strength of resistance against modern colonialism. The story appeared at the end of the last century as one of the Arab literary arts, and it carries within it the spirit of patriotism and the struggle against foreign colonialism in the Arab world. A good example of this is the anecdotal essays that Abdullah Nadim published in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Arab story remained a means of embodying the national and patriotic hopes of the Arab people, and it played a major role in containing the Arab revolutions, such as the Urabi Revolution, the 1919 Revolution in Egypt, the Twentieth Revolution, and the political uprisings that brought about the July 14 Revolution, the Fourteenth Revolution of Ramadan, the Seventeenth Revolution of July, the 18 Revolution in Syria, and the battles. The fateful event of the Arab nation in the First World War and the occupation of the Turkish army of Iskenderun and the Iranian occupation of Al-Ahwaz. And the Arab war against the Zionist entity in the years, 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. A new trend appeared in the modern Arab story called stories of resistance. Palestinian writers from inside and outside the occupied territories participated in it, and the story book in other Arab countries, so it is not surprising that the Iran-Iraq war enriched literature about this war and the matters that accompanied it. If poetry prevails over all other literary arts in expressing the repercussions of this war. The story, especially the short story, took its prominent role and its natural and compatible extension to express the impact of the Iran-Iraq war on the hearts and consciences of Iraqis.
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