Manifestations of Violence in the Arabic poetry of Enthusiasm: A case Study of Abu Ubeidah’s “The Days of Arabs”

Abstract

Verbal violence was linked to physical violence in the old Arab life,
and it was concomitant with it in their Bedouin life. The more Arabs were
closer to the Bedouin life, the more they were violent. Physical violence
reflects verbal violence in the same way a mirror reflects one’s face. That
is why the pre-Islamic Arab environment, which is characterized by
nomadism, was the arena of both physical and verbal violence. We can
see this in Abu Ubeidah’s « The Book of the Days of Arabs », where he
talks about the Arab wars in the pre-Islamic literature- poetry and prosethat
accompanied and described them. He uses verbal violence which
suits the tales of actual violence, including the fierce wars that shaped the
Pre-Islamic Arab life.