The Flash Poem at the Onset of Islamic Age: A Study in the Light of the Theory of Reception

Abstract

Literary texts compete to leave a mark behind in the world of literature. History has immortalized great poems, and critics worked busily on them. Sometimes very short poems appear and critics begin to study them as well. These short poems compete the long poems trying to find a place in the world of literature. Therefore it flashes here and lightens there. It is a flash, an impression, an imprint and sometimes a swift glance. Since Islam appeared in a world of darkness and aberration, flashes appeared to support and show it the way depending on Muslim audience in particular and people of the Arabic Peninsula in general. Thus, it helps the Islamic Call to spread. Therefore, our research is about the flash poem at the onset of Islamic Age in the light of the theory of reception. It also shows the meaning and the roots of the flash poem, and a summary of the theory of reception and its types. Then we studied the language, the image, the music and the structure of this poem. We associated this with the goal of reception whether it is specialized, managed, biased, illustrative or economical. We gave a special attention to the Islamic reception. There is a strong association between the flashing text nd recipients. The recipient should have a literary knowledge springing from society in order to make association between the reader and the text. We approach, or we rather try to reach to the reality of the texts, whether they are the possession of the author, or the latter is another reader to previous texts. We also clarified why flashes appeared at the onset of Islamic Age and what their use is especially, the Arabic Peninsula is full of great poets The flashing Islamic text is a new material and its reception is not so easy, so the research tries to show this duality and to decipher it in order to show that there are Islamic flashes. We depended in this research on references like Mohammed Mubarek's The Arabs Text Reception, published at the Arabic Establishment for Studies and Publication, and Adeeb Hassam Mohammed and Haeel Momhmmed Altalib's The Flash Poem: A Theoretical and Applied Study(2009) puplished in Aldamam: The Eastern Zone in Saudia Arabia.