مناهج بحث الفولكلور العربي بين الأصالة و المعاصرة

Abstract EN

A group'!i culture consists generally of two types : Oral and Written.

The unrecorded oral type makes up the larger part of the Arabic civilization and culture.

Thb oral Arabic folk culture have managed to maintain its originality and autberticity throughout its long history, despite many attempts by mon - Arab nations to impose a foreign culture on Arab populations at different times in different parts of the Arab world.

The unity in content and spirit of Arabic oral folkculture across the whole Arab world and o\er the long history of the Arab period make* imperative that students of Arabic folk culture should use a historically oriented approach .

This historical a pproach to Arabic culture and civilization was indeed the approach used b> Ibn-Khaldun as well as man> other Arab historians.

The author, in the rest of his article, offers a survey of the different Western approaches to the study of Folklore.

He also points out that many Arab scholars have used these Western approaches in their studies of Arabic Folklore.