The Arabic Language Department at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah discussed the efforts of Dr. Mustafa Abdul Latif in studying pre-Islamic poetry.
The researcher Simah Haider Mahdi’s thesis included three chapters that explained pre-Islamic poetry and its substantive issues in the work of Dr. Mustafa Abdel Latif/Criticism and Guidance, as well as the vision of Dr. Mustafa Abdel Latif of pre-Islamic life and its reflection in poetry and methodological and critical trends.
The thesis concluded that Dr. Mustafa Abdul Latif followed the contextual approach, although he did not name it or look at it, but followed in his footsteps in most of his studies, using the historical and social context, as this study showed that the efforts of Dr. Mustafa has moved away from the usual tradition in such studies, and in the lamentation we find that the doctor associated him with crying at home, according to technical justifications justifying the close relationship between the two topics: crying at home and crying over the dead, continuing to the topic of water, lightning and rain. The doctor has been alerted to a kind of lamentation, a degree within self-pity, in the course of analyzing some of the models that the poet sings when he feels the near term or when he is exposed to a crisis.
