Apologies of Kaab bin Zuhair and Abdullah bin Al-Zebahra - A Comparative Analytical Study

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Department of General Sciences - College of Humanities and Sciences - Prince Sultan University - Riyadh

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The art of apology in poetry is deeply linked to the poet's psychology and the nature of his life; so the features of the desert appeared in terms of cruelty, and carried the meanings and images of softness, and the apologies of Kaab bin Zuhair and Abdullah bin Al-Zebahra are two apology poems of great importance; they were born of special circumstances, and were said under intense psychological pressure, and they are by two great and experienced poets who lived in the pre-Islamic era, and in the era of the beginning of Islam at the beginning of the call, and the researcher saw that there was great artistic, historical and literary benefit in studying them, so he studied them using the tools of the descriptive analytical method to answer the following questions: What is the extent of the influence of Islam on the two poems, and what is the extent of the influence of nature on the two poets, and what are the similarities and differences between the two poets in the methods of apology artistically and linguistically, and what are the differences between the two poems in depiction and methods of persuasion. The researcher found from the results of the study that there are clear differences between the two poems in the form content; and in the structure, style, depiction, language and meanings and in their choice of methods of apology, their ways, and the extent to which they were influenced by Islam.

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 34, Issue 67
April (Languages)
April 2025
Pages 57-100

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