ABSTRACT
The focus in this chapter is analysis of the effects made by clash between the Qur’an and tradition on the ideological plane. The very visible outcome is a kind of redirection of poetry from the religious domains and topics to love poetry. Moreover, it is concluded that the Qur’an contributed to the preservation of poetry, but within the limits and for the sake of philology that sealed the Arabic poetry with normative and inductive character. There are detailed observations about distorted periodization of the literature, the literary tradition as a reservoir of motifs, effects of the “philological poetics” in entire cultural space of Islam, as well as strangely servile criticism and legalisation of literary theft.
