Camouflage in lovers' stories In the Umayyad era

Abstract

This research seeks to read the phenomenon of camouflage in the ancient literary text, both its prose and poetry, considering that camouflage was relied upon to conceal a state that a person goes through and has expressed in different poetic texts. This concealment and camouflage did not come out of nowhere, but rather came intentionally and for several reasons, including tribal, social, Islamic religious, and many of which are political reasons. The research was launched to achieve its goal through three axes, the first of which was to research the term camouflage in the concept and to stand on it in language and terminology. The second stood on the story and traced its path through the ages that Arabic literature went through. The third axis presented the reasons behind camouflage and why the writer relies on camouflage to convey his message. The research ended with a set of results. The art of stories is one of the prose arts that existed in the pre-Islamic era and continued to the later eras, and it developed with the development of the historical stages of literature. The phenomenon of camouflage is a literary style that an individual resorts to in order to hide the opposite of what he wants. Camouflage was present in the stories of lovers in the stories of the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras for reasons including society, customs and traditions, while the main reason for using this purpose was the religious aspect in the Islamic era.