What is Arabic poetry like?

[fajfall]

For a thousand years Persian poetry always mentions he following 3 subjects:

1) love
2) joys of wine and drunkeness
3) God, but in a very general sense

This is the unavoidable 'flavour' of Persian literature. I'm wondering what themes come up again and again in Arabic poetry?

[YesNo]

Those themes remind me of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Are there specific authors you are referring to? I also wonder if that rubaiyat is representative of Persian poetry.

[fajfall]

Khayyam is one of the top Persian poets and representative of its poetry. Probably the best poets of Persia are considered to be Hafez, Ferdowsi, Saadi, Rumi and Khayyam

[YesNo]

I looked at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_literature

Apparently Persian literature starts in the 7th century after the Islamic conquest of Iran. I don't know how this differs from "Arabic" poetry, not knowing either one very well.

[North Star]

I looked at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_literature

Apparently Persian literature starts in the 7th century after the Islamic conquest of Iran. I don't know how this differs from "Arabic" poetry, not knowing either one very well.
Arabic poetry is written in Arabic, while Persian poetry is written in Persian.

[YesNo]

That's true, but they both have Islam as a common denominator.

[fajfall]

Iranian poetry is at least as old as Ancient Greek poetry but the Arab Muslims destroyed it all when they burned Persia's libraries. What Isis do to Iraq's and Syria's libraries and museums is nothing new.

[YesNo]

I think all that remains from that earlier time are some Zoroastrian sacred texts. I remember once trying to read those, but they did not make much sense to me.

[desiresjab]

A moslem poet who explored freely would have to be an expatriate of any moslem country, to keep his head.