Days of the Arabs (Arabic: أيام العرب, romanized: Ayyām al-ʿArab) is a collection of the oldest extant Arabic narratives.
It contains stories of raids and battles among Tribes of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam. The text is prosimetric, containing alternating passages of prose and poetry. Passages of poetry composed by the protagonists were included within prose stories, or after by the stories' transmitters or compilers.
References
- Jones, Alan (2007-12-01), "Ayyām al-ʿArab", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2024-02-19
- ^ Reynolds, Dwight F. (2022), Sykäri, Venla; Fabb, Nigel (eds.), "Rhyme in Arabic Oral Poetry", Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song, vol. 14, Finnish Literature Society, pp. 47–62, ISBN 978-951-858-587-2, JSTOR j.ctv371cp40.5, retrieved 2024-02-19
- Caskel, Werner (1930). Aijʻam al-ʻArab: Studien zur altarabischen Epik (in Polish).
- Lichtenstädter, Ilse (1935). Women in the Aiyâm al-ʻArab : a study of female life during warfare in preislamic Arabia. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
- Egbert, Meyer (1970). Der historische Gehalt der Aiyām al-'Arab. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.
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