الفنون الشعریۃ السبعۃ المستحدثۃ العباسیۃ : بین النظریۃ والتطبیق

Abstract

Like other languages of world literatures, Arabic is an ancient and
traditional language. From time immemorial the study of literature
in this language has generally continued. But it was interrupted a
little when the Abbaside rule ended in Bagdad in 1258A.D.
Consequently a certain change happened in Arabic literature. It
tended to study regional folk poems (Seven new trends in poems).
Due to this change of terminology the orientalists term Arabic a
dead language.
This article tries to prove that Arabic is not a dead language though
changes sometimes took place in it. Rather the study of poems
(rhymed and unrhymed) in Arabic language went on as it still
continues. Changes in its trend do not mean an end; it is a
misconception.