Arts, Islamic, Early Islamic literature

With the coming of Islam the attitude of the Arabs toward poetry seems to have changed. The new Muslims, despite their long-standing admiration for powerful language, often shunned poetry as reminiscent of pagan ideals now overthrown. For the Qur'an, in surah 26:225 ff., condemned the poets �who err in every valley, and say what they do not do. Only the perverse follow them!� The Qur'an,