Skepticism in the literature between “Taha Hussein and Ibn Sallam AL-Jumahi

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Abstract This study in Skepticism between Taha Hussein and Ibn Sallam AL-Jumahi; it will take Taha Hussein’s book “The poetry pre-Islamic era” and Ibn Salaam’s books “The ranks of genius poets” as a technique to measure to prove the supposed title because both of them had skeptical the pre-Islamic poetry in a wide range of skepticism ideas. They present a lot of ideas and analysis based on personal justifications rather than based on facts, historical or scientific documents. This study spot the light on the beginning of skepticism negotiations about the truth of this poetry and the reliability of poets existence having the opinion of increasing and omitting which take over documentation era. Moreover, this study clarifies that a number of prior Arabic critics like Ibn Sallam AL-Jumahi, Abu Hamed Al-Gazali, Ibn Qotiabah and Abu Al-Faraj Al-Asfahani. This Study presents some western critics which have an interest in this issue and then I have presented Taha Hessian and Ibn Sallam AL-Jumahi opinions giving my point of view for these opinions and concluded some specific results in its range