Reflection of Centennial Celebration in Arabic Poetry in Abbasid Era

Subject Areas : شعر

Bahram Amani Chackoli ¹

1 - Faculty member, University of Zanjan

Received: 2012-09-26 Accepted : 2012-09-26 Published : 2008-12-01

Keywords: آتش, ادب عباسی, سده, سذق, fire, Abbasid literature, centennial feast, Sazaq, the feast of fire works, عیدالوقود.,

Abstract :

Iranians have been glorifying their ancient celebrations through lightening and fireworks. Among these celebrations, centennial (Sadeh) feast has been more acquainted with fire and fireworks in a way that it was called "the feast of fireworks". The present survey is taking a look at the holiness of fire for Iranians and the resulted challenges of the collision of Islamic custom with centennial feast, taking into consideration its non-Islamic nature, and manifestation of some of the traditions of this feast in Arabic literature of Islamic era.