دراسة الرجز في العصر الإسلامي

The Analysis of Epic Verses (Rajaz )in Islamic period.

Radjaz, the epic verse, is one of the oldest forms of Arabic poetry which in the pre Islamic times included different subjects of priding on tribe or revenging or challenging someone to fight and the like. By the appearance of Islam, there were other subjects such as eagerness for martyrdom and defense of the prophet Mohammad added to former aims of Radjaz. Thus the Islamic Radjaz was combined from meaning of Al-Jahiliyyah and sense of Islam. It seems that the Radjaz of Ashura, the day in which Imam Hoseyn ibn Ali (peace be upon him) was martyred, is the evolution of Islamic Rajaz purified from Jahiliyyah meaning. It's supposed, in addition, to be the greatest model of Islamic literature of resistance in its time that influenced poems composed after. In this article, we try to prove this thought by comparing some Radjaz in Islamic period with Radjaz of Ashura.