Abstract

Fabrication and plagiarism in Arabic poetry of pre Islamic era is discussed in this articale either it was happened or not.Opinion of former, orientalists, modern Arab litterateurs and Arab majoritarian are discussed. former Arab cities like Abulfraj al- Asfahani and Muhammad Bin Slam etc, accepted the fabrication and plagiarism in the above mentioned poetry. The point out Hammadal-Ravia , Ibne-Kalbi and Ibne-Ishaq as fabricators and plagiarists. They separated the original poetry from the fabricated poetry. Orientalists like novedka, Moveer, Baasic and Brokelman discusses in detail. His opinion is that the poetry of pre Islamic era is not original .it is written after the advent of Islam .He gave internal and external reasons in the support of his opinion. Modern Arab litterateurs like Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafia and Nasirul-Deen Al-Asad also accepted fabrication and plagiarism in the poetry of pre Islam era due to some reasons. Taha Hussain is the extremist in this discussion ,He did not accept the poetry of the pre Islamic era . according to him this poetry is written after the advent of Islam for the support of Quran etc. The other Arab litteratereurs opposed him nad wrote against him like Muhammad Ahmed Al-Ghamravi , and Mustafa Sadiq Al-rafia etc . In short the Arab majoritarian also accepted fabrication and plagiarism in the poetry of pre Islamic era but they also accepted "The Poetry of pre Islamic era "