Kurdish and Arab views on folklore and the cultural dimension of heritage

Abstract

This research, entitled (Arab and Kurdish views on heritage and folklore), is an attempt to clarify the Arab and Kurdish views that were mentioned on the terms heritage and folklore. As it is known, the Arab and Kurdish peoples possess a broad culture and there are points of convergence and sharing between them, especially in the field of heritage, and I touched on This study also aims to define the term heritage and explain its concept in general, Heritage is the cultural identity of nations, without which they would dwindle and disintegrate internally, and might culturally merge into one of the strong global cultural and civilizational currents. As for them, they exposed to this disintegration and are driven by a steady force towards the different global currents, and we can sense the reasons for that or some of them in the nature of heritage on the one hand, and in the way of benefiting from it on the other hand, in addition to listing opinions about folklore and its sources can be traced back to the nature of heritage, By heritage, we usually mean the intellectual and cultural legacy left behind by the ancestors of a people, Heritage may be written or preserved and passed down orally from generation to generation. This heritage reflects the image of a nation throughout its past eras. that we may become the generation that preserved, defended, and passed on heritage to future generations.