The Journey in Arabic Literature

Abstract

The journey is one of the ancient branches of literature known in the past, and it was closely linked to the places that travelers used to go to discover a new land. So the journey is defined as everything written and written in the past eras, and it is a literary genre characterized by being a literary and scientific wealth that is full of many important information that travelers have been discovering and delivering to the rest of the countries of the world, and it is a rich and original literature, which attracted me to work with it; Because it is pristine literature, the ships of studies did not delve into its sea much, rather a large part of it remained hidden and not studied until now, as well as the literary field’s lack of such studies that delve into travel literature. Journey in the Arab world. The different way of writing the journey according to the culture of the writer and the literary methods he possesses that enable him to formulate his journey in a literary style that makes it smooth in texture, melts in the ears of the readers and leaves a beautiful impression behind it. From what we have concluded, the description is one of the most important elements that characterize the trip, and the traveler relies on depicting the landmarks he sees, whether these landmarks are internal or external. The trip is considered a historical document through which the traveler aims to search for information about the countries that the traveler visited.