The Historical Approach in the Studies of Saudi Critics of Jahili Poetry: "A Study in Critique of Criticism"

Abstract

This research is a critical demonstration of Saudi critics "efforts to read ignorant poetry in light of contextual approaches. Devoted to the statement of the historical method in the readings and reception of Jahili poetry by contemporary Saudi critics, With the aim of tracking their critical insights, methodological applications, and uncovering the foundations or cognitive and theoretical references on which Saudi critics based their readings of poetic texts. Their interpretation of it, from a modern critical methodological perspective, is "critique criticism." We decided to divide the research into an introduction, two papers and a conclusion.

        The study reached the most prominent results: That the Saudi critics in their studies of Jahili poetry did not depart from their historical contexts in historical criticism, and that the topics and issues they took such as workmanship, plagiarism, lineage, elegy, description, etc., were innovative only in what is determined by the critic of a particular opinion or determination of judgment. The historical rooting of Jahili poetry among Saudi critics was based on different assumptions, either ritualistic religious, assumptions based on doubts about the ratio of poetry to its owner, or aspects other than its consistency in text or artistic phenomena among former critics.