Equestrianism in the tales of proverbs in the pre-Islamic era

Abstract

The research deals with the stories of chivalry included in the Arab proverbs in the pre-Islamic era specifically according to the descriptive and analytical method، exposing the most important resources of those proverbs from the desert environment. The desert represented the horizon and the source from which the Arab quenched his thirst. Its influence on the Arab character was clearly evident، as we see it penetrate his behavior and customs. Since the pre-Islamic society is a realistic society، this appeared clearly in his life in the external framework، so that the contemplations of the pre-Islamic poet were few due to his lack of awareness of metaphysical issues and the afterlife. We see him sometimes attributing death to time. The research is divided into two sections preceded by an introduction in which he studied the environment and its effect on the emergence of literature، and then the conclusion in which the study added a definition of the proverb in language and terminology and the functions of social proverbs. The first section focused on chivalry and its relationship to the pre-Islamic social environment. The researcher dealt with representations of chivalry in the pre-Islamic era، then studied examples of those representations. As for the second section، the manifestations of values in the stories of knights in proverbs، represented by the values of courage. And the values of forgiveness section dealt with