Analyzing Different Types of Intertextuality in the Quran and Arabic Literatue in “Malhama of Karbala” by Saeed Al-osaili

Intertextuality aims to find the hidden layers of a literary text. The poem Karbala by the Lebanese poet, Saeed Al-Osaili is an important epic of contemporary Arabic poetry. In this 6000-line poem, he has been influenced by different intellectual, literary and historical sources. The present paper uses a descriptive-analytical approach according to an intertextual analysis. This poem establishes intertextual connections with the Quran, NAhjolbalaghah, classical and contemporary Arabic poetry and famous proverbs. The three types of connections are particular negation, universal negation and parallelism.