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In social sciences under the influence of positivist thought, space has lagged behind time and other elements; it has been perceived as a mere component that is not connected to a history and an individual. However, while spaces are shaped and find meaning by people's own production and experience, they also shape people's social and psychological personalities. Recognising this subjective and contextual aspect of knowledge, postmodern thought has attached greater importance to space. In literary criticism, the postmodern perspective has made space a powerful element of critique. In poetry, which is one of the subjects of literary criticism, spaces become facts that the poet constructs, and consciously or unconsciously transfers from their memories to poetry. Characters and fiction can only reveal themselves in that space. In classical Arabic poetry, space assumes a more realistic identity. In these poems where realities are fictionalised, certain spaces are also fictionalised through literature. One of the most important examples of this is the poetry produced by the poets of the Arab bandits called ṣuʿlūk in Arabic. Ṣuʿlūk, whose plural is ṣaʿālik in Arabic, means poor. It is the name given in Arabic literature of the classical period to people who had various problems with their tribes and were ostracised, and who made a living by blocking roads and robbing caravans. They lived in deserts and mountains and were killed if caught, most of whom were poets. Bandits and poet-bandits belonging to this group continued to exist as a social phenomenon in very small numbers during the Islamic period, with more numbers during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. This study focuses on the human-space relations and space fiction in the ode Lāmiyyat al-ʿArab by Shenferā (d. 525-550), one of the leading outlaw poets of the Jahiliyya period, and the poem Ve sāiletin ayna al-raḥīlu by the Abū al-Nashnāsh al-Nahshalī (d. 685- 695) who lived during the Umayyad period. The question of the article is whether there is a change in the spatial perceptions and geographical fictions in the two poems, of these two poets with similar lifestyles even though they lived in the same geography in different periods. Because in the poems of the two poets subjected to the study, certain spaces that actually exist are fictionalised. The poet-space relationship of these two fictions/poems shows the geographical perceptions of the poets who describe themselves in their poems.This makes this study original and significant. When the literature was examined in this field, some scientific studies on bandit poets were found in both Turkish and Arab academies with the works named al-Shuʿarâu al-ṣaʿâlîk fî al-shiʿri al-câhilî, al-Ṣaʿâlîk fi al-'aṣri al-Umawî. However, none of these studies investigated the perception of geography and space in poetry; nor have they made a comparison of bandit poets who lived in two different periods. In this study, the two poems of bandit poets were analysed and compared with the data analysis method, which is a qualitative research method with an interpretative perspective. Firstly, these two poets are briefly investigated. Since the Lāmiya is very long, some of its first couplets are translated directly and the rest of the poem is presented in prose. Since the poetry of Abu Nashnash is short, the whole of it is directly translated. Subsequently, the style and content of these poems were examined and compared by focusing on the poets' spatial perceptions. In the research, it was observed that there were some changes in the perceptions of these two poets, whose literature, which included depictions of animals, plants, and other elements surrounding their lives in the region where they lived, showed their perceptions of the environment as a whole. In these two poems, in which the desert is spatially emphasised, the meaning of the desert as home changes. For Shenfera, the desert is an intermediate space that is necessary for his freedom but where he is still in captivity; which enables him to exist virtuously. For Abu al-Neshnash, it is a place of comfort, wealth, and freedom. But for both of them, this space is surrounded by death, a price that must be accepted for the sake of existence.

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