Poetic antithesis ( the oldest models in the pre-islam era)

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This research deals with the disclosure of the oldest poetic antitheses held in the pre-Islam era , which were not covered by those who wrote on the subject of the poetic antitheses of the ancients . it was not mentioned by Abu –Obadiah in his book ( the antitheses of Greer and Al-Farazdak ) , neither by Abu Tammam in his book( the antitheses of Greer and Al-akhtal) , also it was not mentioned as a subject by the modernists. These poems can be considered as an institutional models of antitheses in the history of Arabic poetry.