حضور القصة القصيرة في التراث الأدبي عند العرب

Abstract EN

The opinions of critics have varied about the presence of the short story in the ancient Arabic literature, some of them considered it an art coming from the West in the modern era, and the Arab had no knowledge of it in the past, and some of them made it an original art rooted in ancient Arabic literature.

These opinions raised many questions about the story.

This article seeks to reveal the truth and the existence of the short story in ancient Arabic literature.

This is because extrapolation and reading of the literary heritage gives us access to many stories, myths and proverbs that were known in ancient Arab societies and then what followed of the Islamic eras, even if the story here differs from the one in the modern era, because the story is a sophisticated art, like other arts, that is affected by the change and development of social life.