"His sayings are also responsible for establishing the significance of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry for understanding the Qur'an."

However, the distinction between Arab and Ajam is discernible in pre-Islamic poetry.

Taha Hussayn, himself keen on European thought, would even dare to challenge the Qur'an with modern critical analysis in which he pointed out the ideas and stories borrowed from pre-Islamic poetry.

Their courts were responsible for some notable examples of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and for some of the few surviving pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions in the Arabic script.

And responding to the views of Dr. Taha Hussein in his book known as "pre-Islamic poetry."

Poetry is the fundamental Arab literary form, dating back to the quasida, or ode, the pre-Islamic oral poetry of monorhymes, each line ending in the same sound.

Compilation of the Mufaddaliyat (prior to 784) and the Mu'allaqat, the major collections of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.

During his lifetime Yahuda was a notable linguist and writer, translating and interpreting many ancient Arabic documents including various works of pre-Islamic poetry and medieval Judeo-Arabic texts.

There are several characteristics that distinguish pre-Islamic poetry from the poetry of later times.

His poems can be found in Hammad Ar-Rawiya's anthology, the Mu'allaqat ("the Suspended"), a collection of pre-Islamic poetry.