The dwellers of Islam countries have witnessed appearance and spread of a literary movement since about the second half of 8th century. The litterateurs of the Mawali class, when the caliphate period of the Umayyads, who they were exposed to intense racist programs, came to an end, began to show reaction against them and the Arabism mentality, with a literary movement that they pioneered. Literary works written by the representatives of this movement which would be known as Shuubiyya were essentially aimed to prove that to what extent, Arabs dropped back in terms of civilization level by comparison with the non-Arabs. In the process of several centurial, Shuubiyya, which found the domain in many countries that owned a social scructure consist of the various nations in different continents ruled by Muslims, gained also opponents as much as supporters. The mutual contention of the parties, which lasted in certain periods of the Middle Ages, ended before the same epoch was over. However, the Shuubiyya concept was began to be revoiced but this time rather as a political and ideological discourse in the wake of a long gap phase continued until the modern times. To explain with essential aspects the historical venture of the literary movement at stake, will be a task of present examination. In the direction of the decided goal, first of all, it will be focused on the beginning and ongoing stages of the controversy. This part will be followed the title which is cited comparatively the arguments on the subject that were asserted by leading researchers of the field. As for that in the third and final step, it will be touched on the change in the semantic framework of the Shuubiyya term in the last two centuries. In this manner, to be recalled the to academia, of Shuubiyya controversy recurred in the different periods of Islamic and Middle East history will enable the article to achieve its own objective.