The Sun in the Pre – Islamic Poetry

In chapter one, the researcher shows the religious status of the sun which companies one of the three bases of holiness in the beliefs of the ancient nations in the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Hebrew thinking in addition to Yemeni and Arabs in the pre- Islamic era. The researcher also discusses the relationship of the major universal gods through their transformational symbols between flora and finoa. He also deals with the atlpagarism of this belief and its revelations in addition to know what this planetary religion reached in the ancient civilizations. He also refers to what the previous researchers and archeologists discovered to study a nation whose civilizations was lost due to the various factors of change.This study is distinguished by adopting the mythological methodology in order to understand the religious value of the sun among the individuals of the ancient ages, which was dominated by the mythological thought. In chapter two, the researcher discussed the places where the sun was mentioned in the poetry of pre- Islamic poets without concentrating on any specifies poet. In addition, he tries to know some of the points of agreement between poets in showing certain cases through studying the sun symbols in the pre – Islamic poetry and the places where the poets concentrated on mentioning the sun.He also discusses the poets interest in the woman and her relationship with the sun in order to know the role of the sun through the various purpose of the sun. Then he describes the state of the sun during wars and the living nature including its flora and Fiona. Chapter three is divided into two parts. In the first part, the researcher discusses the images of the sun in the pre- Islamic poetry in relation with the similes and images that help in giving a beautiful images of the artistic ability of the pre – Islamic poet. He then investigates the sources of these images. In the second part, the researcher discusses the dimensions of the image whether they are my theological, religious psychological or social in addition, he investigates the effects of the sun upon the ancient people and the bares of these dimensions.