The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Arts has organized an electronic lecture entitled (Storytellers, Preachers and Mentors) in cooperation with the Department of History. The lecturers tried to trace the role played by storytellers before Islam, the development of this art and the most important topics reported in the news of the previous nations and stating that after the onset of the Islamic age the storytellers were present in the era of the Rashidun Caliphate. Even the preachers appeared in the second century AH and developed their impact on people in the third and fourth centuries after Hijra, especially during the reign of the caliph Al-Qadir Bi-Allah in order to eliminate the Buyid dynasty (Buyid Emirate). Also they talked about the Sufi mentors whose role was vivid as spiritual guide at the corners and then developed and varied their methods in the Levant and Morocco (Mashreq & Maghreb).
