القصة القصيرة العربية بين الأصول و المثاقفة

الملخص EN

The Arabic short story is one of the literary arts, which within time has proven its eligibility/worthiness in front of the novel as a rival genre as regards creativity and reading, attempting to make/incise its way to its readers and scholars.

It was also always present in our ancient Arab heritage, as the Arab heritage abounds in all kinds of stories, which, although not in the form of what is called today the short story or the story with its modern and contemporary artistic standards, but it contained the element of narration and the style of storytelling.

Researchers and critics have unanimously agreed that the Arabic story has ancient origins dating back to pre-Islamic literature up to the Islamic era, and the “Thousand and One Nights” which gained world fame is what made it at the forefront of global stories thanks to its personalities who transformed international figures such as Ali Baba, Sinbad and others, but evidence of the durability of Arabic storytelling.

The latter's fame transcended all limits, which made it today a world heritage, not to mention many of the characters that became global through Arab stories such as Juha Al-Arabi, Shahriar and Shahrazad, and even became known to the non-specialist that many ancient artworks were a source of inspiration for many Western writers.

It has been proven that the Italian Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, influenced by the message of forgiveness of Abu Ala Al-Maari, and La Fontaine wrote poems on the tongue of the animals influenced by Kalila and Dimna fable by Ibn al-Muqaffa.

A there are also Spanish stories that have been affected by Arab literature by virtue of the long coexistence between the two civilizations, and the Arab story continued to evolve, affecting and being affected over time and generations, until it reached us in its current fashion, influenced by Western and non-Arab literature in general.

Many factors have contributed to this shift in what we call acculturation and openness to the other and within the framework of being influenced by the other.

All comparative studies in literature unanimously agree that the openness to the Western world through the French invasion of Egypt at the beginning of the nineteenth century was the reason for the Arbeing exposed to French and Western literature in General.

The translation that spread at that time, in addition to the scientific missions to Europe, and the spread of books and libraries thanks to the printing press, contributed to this.

All these factors and other friction of Arab culture with the other contributed to the influence of the Arab story with its Western counterpart, which led to the emergence of the artistic short story in our modern Arab literature.