Arab Markets and Their Impact On the Development of Language and The Prosperity of Literature

Abstract

In fact, language is not only a means of communication and understanding between people, but rather is the tool of thinking and influence, as literature represents the nation's awareness and values in the finest images of manifestation and expression.

Both language and literature witnessed a great care and attention among Arabs. Among those cares and attentions are the Arab markets and their seasons. We have not known a nation established a market for word, as Arabs did in their literature markets for example (Okaz), (Mijina) and (Thu Al-Fiqar).

These markets had special timetables and decrees. Their heyday flourished in the ignorance period (the pre-Islamic period), in which poetry and literature reached us and paved the way for Islam to unite the language and literature, and worked to remove differences between the dialects of different tribes.

On the whole, the Arabs in the ignorance period were making deals, voicing out poems, showing proud and discussing matters in these markets. From all these, we see how these markets were the center of a vast literary and linguistic movement, as it was the center of a social and economic movement. This is a summary of what is discussed in our research entitled (Arab markets and their impact on the development of language and the prosperity of literature) within three chapters: the first: the definition of these markets and seasons, and its types and decrees, and the second: the impact of these markets in the refinement and prosperity of language; and third: the impact of these markets in the development and prosperity of literature.