Abstract
The title suggests that there is more than only one orality... The phenomenon of orality resembles a rivulet which has no colour of its own and thus takes an mirrors the colour of the soil it runs upon.
What are the specific attributes of the pre-Islamic Arabic orality? How exactly did this phenomenon imprint itself on the pre-Islamic poetry and how did it alter the relation and interaction of form and content? These questions represent a cluster of intertwined problems which we will try to deal with.