The Characteristics of Artistic Images in the Perspectives of Ancient Arab Scholars

Abstract

This article is the study about the general characteristics of the emerging artistic images in the perspectives of ancient Arab scholars in order to solve the problems of the controversy among current scholars about the generating artistic images in terms of   affirmation and refutation.  

Although the term of “Artistic Images” is the term emerged in this current era, the ancient Arab scholars had also emphasized and greatly dedicated on this issue by giving the definitions of images and implemental analyzing from Al-Qur’an, prose and poem. The term of “Artistic Images” may not truly appeared in the ancient Arab rhetoric books, but the definitions, characteristics and explanations of this term appeared in the books of ancient Arab scholars.  

The findings from the study found that the root of this term, artistic images, exactly appeared in the books of ancient Arab, but it not really clear for the current Arab critics and literatures. This may be the results from having unclear in their own describing of the ancient Arab literatures or from their ideas that this term is the new issue.