The Arab-Islamic evoke in Borges’ poetry

Abstract

This article deals with the Arab-Islamic influence on the Argentine writer Luis Jorge Borges who is considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He speaks many languages and has a very significant cultural background. He is known for his great love of the Arabic language and his deep knowledge of oriental culture. Islamic and Arabic themes have always been present in his literary works and his writing style, whether in a novel, essay, or poetry. This descriptive study tries to study how the author uses Arabic material to express other ideas in an international literary style through quotes or metaphors. The article shows a small part of this Arab- Islamic influence by analyzing the poem entitled “Metaphors in the Thousand Nights and a Night” by the Argentine writer Luis Borges.