Satans of poetryA critical study in transformation of an Arabic idea

" " . .This paper discusses the common Arabic idea about satans of poetry which means that every poet specially in pre- Islamic age has an actual satan or a genie as the real composer of his poems. The paper shows that the old and modern Arab scholars dealt with the idea in various ways of misun-derstanding, which gradually transformed it from an allegoric expression of the poetic talent into a literally meaning. the main result of the paper is that the satans of poetry with its correct cultural and historical context is a projective Islamic idea and it has nothing to do with jahiliyyah and jahily poets and it may be a production of a long unconscious process to satanize the poetic discourse for religious, sociological and cultural reasons.