چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper illustrates how the Pre-Islamic Sulu’k’svision, in many aspects, proves to be a representation of
the cynicism and skepticism of post-modern ideology. I compare and contrast Al-Shanfara’s Lamiyyat AlArab to the philosophy of Nietzsche, as one of the pioneers of post-modern ideology. In the article, Iexplain
how the Sulu’k poet rejects the politics of a civilized human society, associates himself with the lawless animal
kingdom, and extracts his morality and aesthetics from his “will to power”. He does not celebrate the human
society as a proper environment for living with itsconfining rules and weakening morality; rather, herejoices
the animal society for its wilderness and freedom. The main purpose behind this comparison is to assert the
precedence of post-modern ideology in the pre-Islamic Sulu’k’s poetry much before it is attributed to modern
western philosophy