rāwī

rāwī

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      (Arabic: “reciter”), in Arabic literature, professional reciter of poetry. The rāwīs preserved pre-Islāmic poetry in oral tradition until it was written down in the 8th century.

      One or more rāwīs attached themselves to a particular poet and learned his works by heart. They then recited and explained the poet's verse before a wider audience. Such an attachment often became an apprenticeship, and, after mastering the poetic technique, some rāwīs became poets in their own right. The rāwīs, with reputations for phenomenal memories, eventually came to form an independent class. When the great philological schools of Basra and al-Kūfah in Iraq were formed in the 8th century, the rāwīs were sought out by scholars as preservers of an ancient language and poetic style that was falling into disuse.

      The method of preserving poetry through rāwīs, relying as it did on memory, however, was imperfect, and the poetry of the pre-Islāmic period was subject to mutations, omissions, unauthorized additions, and the transposition of lines and verses. Early poems recorded in more than one version show great textual divergences, and parts of different poems are often found pieced together.

      Some of the most famous rāwīs, especially two who first wrote down poems, Ḥammād ar-Rāwiyah (Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah) and Khalaf al-Aḥmar, are thought to have dealt freely with their originals and have even been called clever forgers. It is thus necessary to consider carefully the evidence for authenticity of any verse attributed to a particular pre-Islāmic poet.

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