القواسم المشتركة بين أسلوب بيكارسك و النمط الحكائي للمقامة

Abstract EN

mah in literary terms is a special type of short stories with a prose poetry text, which first appeared in Arabic literature in the fourth century AH on the initiative of Badi-ol-Zaman Hamedani.

These stories are usually about the history of a single hero who travels from city to city for the sake of begging, and his adventures does not have a single venue.

In Western fiction, a style called Picaresque emerged in the 16th century which in terms of structure, type of characters and the theme of the story is similar to Maqāmah stories.

The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method and with the help of library resources, investigates the structural relationship between the Maqāmah and Picaresque stories.

The results of the present study show that the Picaresque style originated in imitation of the Maqāmah stories and they are similar not only in terms of structure, characterization and narrative themes, but also Picaresque stories in West literature has emerged in imitation of Maqāmah stories in East literature.