Talking about Arab theater raises several preliminary problems that must be cleared, and the first of these problems comes from the fact that theater is not one of the traditional literary arts, which the ancient Arabs knew and left us with a heritage similar to what they left in other literary arts, such as the arts of praise, satire, lamentations, poetry, maqamat, sermons, and so on.
In "Faust," the poet imitates the Torah in the Book of Job, creating a dialogue between God and Satan about man's love for God and his power to be faithful to Him.
