Islamic History and Literature

This study aims at examining and analyzing the figurative, voluble, and aesthetic metaphors in one of the prominent pieces of poetry; it is Ash-Shanfara’s Lamiyyat Al Arab. It tracks the deductive-critical method concentrating analytically on some verses of the poem, specifically the second ten verses – the eleventh to the twentieth. It attempts to divulge into the in-depth analysis of the aesthetic potentials and poetic matters and the figurative images in these lines of the poem. The study begins with an introduction to the magnificence of the Arabic language and then moves ahead to shed light on the majesty of Arabic poetry. After that, the paper deals with ideas about the protagonist-poet Ash-Shanfara, the fastest ‘sulouk,’ brigand as a great Arabic poet to be followed by analysis and comments on the poem Lamiyyat Al-Arab attempting to catch on the original Arab principles, morals, integrities, and tenets in the pre-Islam age it contains.