Edited sentence: Lebanese historian Kamal Salibi pointed to such discrepancies in his book "A History of Arabia": To describe the social situation of Arabia before Islam, the Koran introduced the term Jahiliyya (Jāhiliyya - جاهليه), meaning "tribal feuding", or "tribal conflict".The common mistranslation of this term as the "Age of Ignorance" is explained by the fact that the Arabic verb "Jahala - جَهَلَ", which originally meant "to vaunt one's self", or "to set count on one's tribal status", later developed the meaning "to be ignorant".The opposite of "jahl - جَهْل", in its original sense, was "hilm - حِلْم" meaning "patient forbearance".This article contains serious misinterpretation of the term "Jahiliyya" and all its sub-terms, verbs and their uses such as "Jahili Poetry", etc