fi-aŠ-Šir al-ğāhili" ("On Pre-Islamic Poetry') in 1927 ¹ in a critical and analytic manner and thus sparked a polarizing polemic. His critique of the alleged authenticity of pre-Islamic poetry and the assumption that it might be of a later date was interpreted as indirect doubt about the authenticity of the Qur'anic corpus, which could relativize religious dogma with regard to the Qur'an.It is known that the written collection of pre-Islamic poetry was carried out at the time of the Umayyad Caliphate, i.e. 200 to 300 years after the poetry came into being. Until this time of written consolidation, the poems were orally transmitted. Important in our context are the structural attributes of the values and the world-view that can be gleaned from these collections of poetry.² There is a consensus among researchers and historians of literature that pre-Islamic poetry delivers an important insights into various conditions of life in the Arabian peninsula before Islamic revelation. It shows the emotions, the values, and the various experiences that were of importance not so much for the poet as for his tribe. The poet was like a scribe or a documentary archive for his tribe and keeper of a collective memory. Through his poetry he establishes the most important events from his subjective point of view, events that are intrinsically important, but also significant for his tribe: the wars, the victories and the losses, the enthusiasm and the disappointment, the dead and Death, love and hate. The genres of pre-Islamic poetry and their themes, which deliver their stylistic determinations, also reveal the environment of the poets of yore, their social structures and the various dominant views and values. The genres are the following:" /> Ways of the intellect - Ben Abdeljelil Jameleddine | sdvig press