Boasting and snobbery is on inseparable part of Arab life before the Islamic era. Pride of ancestry besides tribal bigotries is the basis of dominant regime of barbarianism Arabian thoughts. These boastings were performed in different forms and some of them had the following outcomes which continued for several days. Monafara is one of the important methods of boasting with its special status. The existence of this tradition is not surprising in the society before Islam. The important thing was its appearance and continuation in Islamic era by a new covering which showed so many truths about the effect of Jahilyya traditions on the behaviour of early Moslems. Hashimids, as the most famous Quraysh family, were located at the center Monafara before and after Islamic era; so the study and clarification of Monafara tradition, without attention to Quraysh family, is not possible, because of their special role in events and occasions. This research studies the Monafara tradition and shows, how this tradition would appear again by benefiting from among differences the Moslems; although changed its form, but its from contents remained the same and created a new process.
Aeinevand S, Baseri V. A Study on Monafara Tradition in Jahilyya (Ignorance-Based Pre-Islamic Arab) Culture and its Reproduction and Consequences in the Islamic Period
(Relying on Hashimid’s Monafara)
. مطالعات تاریخ اسلام 2013; 5 (18) :7-28 URL: http://journal.pte.ac.ir/article-1-278-en.html