Abstract

       Elegies constituted a dominant thematic pattern in Islamic literature, or Islamic conquests’ literature, due to its representation of what wars are related to of killing or facing death. Hence, the theme of elegies was an important one especially what was related to new aspects that were inserted in the Islamic Era which surpassed the religious aspects and their rituals to go up to metaphysics and attempt to balance between the obliteration of the body and its mortality, and the continuance of the soul, its purity and immortality. We cannot imagine that the elegy of Malik ibn al- Rayb which was approached in many studies has addressed the philosophy of self- obliteration and soul continuance and the strategy of self- purification which was discovered in the prologue and the epilogue of the poem; the connection or association and the difference between the prologue and the epilogue in this poem worked on strategies that started from self- alienation and their obliteration in search of immortality at the end of the poem by way of maintaining the eternal and sublime meanings. Since the introduction was the front of the Arabic poem, so the ancient poets were proficient and creative in it. Our poet Malik bin-Al-Rayeb followed their approach and excelled as they excelled and innovated in their poetic production