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'Poetry of the Days'. early Arabic Poetry - Pre-Islam, Arabian Peninsula, with collection, study and investigation of Afif Muhammad Abd al-Rahman.

The pre-Islamic Arabs recorded their important and distinguished battles and wars through their poetry, and called those occasions days, such as the «Day of Salan, Day of Buzakha, ...» Dr. Afîf gathered in this survey the issues said about the days of pre-Islamic Arabs, arranged as the days of Kahtani tribes, the wars of the Kahtani Tribes with others, the days of Tamim, the Days of Qays and Tamim, the Wars of Qays, and the Days of Qays and Kananat. He numbered them, mentioned their measures and occasions, and interpreted them from the sources. Indexed.

The researcher collected the poetry of these days in this book, relying on the texts mentioned in the primary sources, focusing on the most documented source, and he controlled the flags mentioned in these texts, the flags of the knights or men of the tribe, and the flags of the places that were the scene of the fighting, then explained the poetic texts, relying on some of the explanations that came in the sources that were scientifically verified.

He also shed light on the text, its circumstances, and its occasion or purpose. He arranged some texts according to what came in one day, and others according to the title such as the Basus War, and Al-Ghabra.