Features of poetic contrasts in the Umayyad era

Abstract

Poetic antitheses represent a prominent part of the history of Arabic literature during the Umayyad era, serving as an arena for verbal conflict between poets. This phenomenon emerged as a result of the social and political conditions prevailing at the time, serving as a means of boasting and satire between tribes. Poets of antitheses, such as Jarir, Al-Farazdaq, and Al-Akhtal, were the most prominent of those who expressed this phenomenon in a complex and sophisticated poetic form.