This article is dedicated to the study of the first written genres of Arabic literature in the pre-Islamic period. The author presents scientific data on the use of kitabat in the daily life of Arabs in the days of Jahiliyya: in the preparation of various commercial documents and peace agreements and literary treatises were sent in oral form The author also puts forward the possibility that treatises existed in written form in the Jahiliyya period, based on a number of scientific assumptions.

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