Cultural references in the poetry of Abdullah bin Rawahah

Abstract

        The research seeks to define the cultural references and their role in consolidating and supplying the poetic text of one of the most prominent poets of the Islamic era.  He is the poet Abdullah bin Rawahah, and how he employed these various cultural references;  to form a source  from which the poet draws his poetic material, as this awareness of these references formed a dominant construction on many of the poet’s texts. The research tried to identify the different mechanisms that the poet harnessed to employ these references. The research also aimed to reproduce them in a manner that is commensurate with the poet’s subjective experience and the different conditions of saying .