The Islamic Tai Poets in Balance of Criticism

Abstract

This research is concerned with the poets of the tribe of Tai who lived in lslamic era, and it attempts to answer the question: what is the level of their poetry according to the standards of Arab literary criticism? To answer this question, we decided to follow the opinions of the old Arab critics in their judgments of Arab poetry. We will reveal the artistic structure of these poems, whether they are poems or fragments, and were they in their poems with a long or short poetic breath? And how did they build those poems? Did they follow the traditions of the ancient poets in the introductions to their poems? Was the thematic unity achieved in these poems or did they address more than one theme? Did they succeed in moving from one subject to another? Then we will address the topics of these poems and we will present them to the Sunan of Arab poets in the fulfillment of poetic meanings in those purposes in: pride, praise, satire, lamentation, spinning, description... And we will give our opinion on these meanings according to the standards of Arab literary criticism.