Interdisciplinary and Literary Genres: Towards an Encyclopaedic Critical Horizon

Abstract

This study examines the concept of interdisciplinarity, tracing its origins and showing that Arab scholars practiced interdisciplinary methods long before the term existed. Using descriptive and analytical approaches, the research asks: What is interdisciplinarity? Why did it emerge? And what does it add to literary analysis? The study concludes that interdisciplinarity offers a clearer understanding of literary texts, expands critical perspectives beyond rigid specialization, and reveals that implicit interdisciplinary practices already existed in classical Arabic scholarship.