Study of Status of Poetry in Cultures of Communities Prior to Emergence of Monotheistic Religions (Based on a Case Study of this Role in Culture of Ancient Iran in Comparison with the Tribal System of Arab Community in the Age of Ignorance

This article, with the assistance of evidences, compares and studies the similarities and differences of the social status of two groups in the pre-historic era of ancient Iran and Arab tribes of the Age of Ignorance; prior and after composition of gathas and the divine revelation of ayahs of Holy Quran. The article has presented a theory on the level of paradigm of polytheism-Shamani poems, and its development into monotheism-eulogy. On this basis, the promotion of monotheism changed the status of poets in the social system from propagators of gods and idols to admirers of centralized political-religious power.