Study of Status of Poetry in Cultures of Communities Prior to Emergence of Monotheistic Religions (Based on a Case Study of this Role in Culture of Ancient Iran in Comparison with the Tribal System of Arab Community in the Age of Ignorance

Document Type : مقالات علمی پژوهشی

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This article, with the assistance of evidences, compares and studies the similarities and differences of the social status of two groups in the pre-historic era of ancient Iran and Arab tribes of the Age of Ignorance; prior and after composition of gathas and the divine revelation of ayahs of Holy Quran. The article has presented a theory on the level of paradigm of polytheism-Shamani poems, and its development into monotheism-eulogy. On this basis, the promotion of monotheism changed the status of poets in the social system from propagators of gods and idols to admirers of centralized political-religious power.

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