Companionship and the Companion: Meaning and Structure in pre-Islamic Poetry

Abstract

This study deals with the concept of companionship and companion in pre-Islamic poetry in terms of meaning and structure. The importance of the subject lies in the fact that it was not observed as a phenomenon studied in ancient Arabic literature and in pre-Islamic poetry in particular, despite the emergence of the phenomenon in it. The pre-Islamic poem and its artistic texture, and the aim of all of this is to monitor the formations of the Sahib’s appearance in pre-Islamic poetry and its images, and to limit the methods of construction, and then stand on the implications of those branches and the objective and substantive variations.

This study includes two important aspects: a theoretical aspect that represents monitoring the connotations of the word Sahib and its derivatives in Arabic dictionaries, and a procedural aspect related to the representations of Sahib and its variations, methods of construction and connotations in pre-Islamic poetry. In reading the collections of pre-Islamic poetry to reveal the manifestations of companionship and companion in it, then we concluded the study with a set of results and the most important sources and references of the study that were the sources of research and its origin.