ОСОБЕННОСТИ РАННЕСРЕДНЕВЕКОВОГО ЭПИЧЕСКОГО ТВОРЧЕСТВА АРАБОВ

The article is devoted to the most interesting phenomenon in Arabic literature - tribal legends, included in the Arab medieval literature called “Ayyam al- Arab” (“Days of the Arabs”). Oral narrative is an incomparable genre of Arab culture. Containing folklore origins and genetically related to the epic, it is at the same time quite distinctive and distinctly separate from other literary genres. The prose of Days, as well as poetry, is a work of high art with its own laws and its own poetics. And considering that for a long time, Arabic prose has not received proper development, the appearance of Ayyam Al- Arab should be regarded as one of the sources of historiographic prose, actually as the beginning of narrative prose in the history of Arabic literature.