Employing the Quranic Stories in Ummayyid Poetry

Abstract

Among the instances of representing traditional heritage in literature are the representation of quranic stories and characters, in such a way that literature intends to incorporate the quranic stories and modify them in order to meet its intended purposes, observing the magnificence of the original text. The Ummayyid poets made attempts to depict the political and social circumstances of their society meaningfully by employing the Islamic tradition, espicially the quranic stories. This paper consists of issues about employing quranic stories in Ummayyid poetry; hence, we have surveyed a number of odes that have taken their subject matter from the Qur'an. We intend to point to the extent these poems dealt with quranic stories and simulated their social and political circumstances with them. In this research, we have applied a descriptive-analytic method, based on analysis and induction, in discussing the aesthetic methods that were applied by Ummayyid poets in employing quranic characters, as we have tried to base the research on selection of illustrative poetic samples in Ummayyid period.

Keywords

• ummayid poetry
• quranic stories
• representation of heritage