The problematic of the narrative carrier and the cognitive carrier in the ancient Arab narration, -Kalila wa Dimna as a model-

Abstract

The primitives of the ancient Arab narrative accompanied the beginnings of the storytelling act in its relationship to human existence and language; and with the advent of the critical system it took multiple gender forms. The latter were no more than an expressive medium for the human experience of the ancient nations, and the ancient Arab narrative kept pace with this epistemological pattern, which was linked in its legacy to interesting narrative models, including: the story of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail (581 AH), the letters of the Brotherhood of Purity and Khalan Al-Wafa’ by Al-Hakim Al-Majriti Al-Qurtubi (395 AH), the stories of Kalila wa Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa’ (d. 140 AH), the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, and others.

This narrative heritage includes cognitive systems that differ according to various narrative visions; this is what makes narration, in our view, a mere expressive medium that searches for the deposits of human knowledge; hence, the linguistic