Arabic Literature

Abstract Retrospective analysis of Islamic thought reflects thinkers’ focus on religious texts through various approaches. This has led to the establishment of various sciences based on religious approach hence influencing common science. This mutual effect in the realm of thought, specially in rhetoric prepared the ground for many developments. Some of the contemporary new Arab thinkers including Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd (1943) studied the rhetorical thought of Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani (471 AH) by hermeneutic theories. Regarding the importance of understanding Jurjani’s thought pattern and Abu Zayd’s use of his ideas by new thinking-critical approaches, the present study attempts to exploit Abu Zayd’s documentations of Jurjani’s thoughts, analyzes the thought roots and the reading of these ideas in his view through qualitative approach and inductive method. The study yielded the results that Nasr Hamed uses a critical approach and two method -referring to the thinker’s ideas and hermeneutical relativism- to analyze the Islamic legacy. By Jurjani’s reading and changing his thinking method to understand his content, Nasr Hamed considers him a pioneer of relativism in Arabian culture. By associating elements like reader-response criticism, death of the author, negation of denotative meaning and negation of entailment in phrases containing figurative meaning, frequency of reading, frequency of author and parity of inimitability with fusion of horizons in Jurjani’s thought, Nasr Hamed considers him a trendsetter of a critical approach in the Arabian contemporary thought realm.

Abstract The comparison between the views of Ibn Malik, in Alfiya, and his son, Ibn al-Nazim, in Sharh Ibn al-Nazim ‘ala alfiyat Ibn Malik, is one of the most important morphological and grammatical issues in the Arabic grammer. Alfiya (ألفیة ابن مالک) is a rhymed book of Arabic grammar written by Ibn Malik in the 13th century. Sharh Ibn al-Nazim ‘ala alfiyat Ibn Malik is considered one of the best commentaries which has been written on Alfiya, because the author of this commentary was the son of the Ibn Malik. Ibn al-Nazim, the son of Ibn Malik, was one of the most Arab prominent grammarians who have learned Arabic grammar straightly from his father. The alfiyat Ibn Malik and its explanation also help students and investigators in their morphological and grammatical studies. So this thesis seeks to compare the views of Ibn Malik, in Alfiya, and his son, Ibn al-Nazim, in Sharh Ibn al-Nazim ‘ala Alfiyat Ibn Malik. From this point of view, the study aims at comparing their opinions and the differences between their opinions on the morphological and grammatical issues. It should be also noted that the approach taken in this article is the analytical approach. The most important finding of the research is that the differences of opinion between them are less than ten, and the most important of these views are as follows: the communication of pronouns of Nasikheh verbs, the connection of “lyta”, “La‘alla”, “Qad” and “Qat” with “Noon al-viqayah” and issue of Title and Nickname… .

Abstract One of the aspects of the miracle of the Quran is the relationship between the Phonology and the music of Holy verses with their meaning, which Made Profound impact even on those who are not deeply familiar with Quran. Arrangement of letters in terms of proximity and pronunciation, convergence and contrast characteristics, frequency and sequence of movements and their impact on the Phonology and music of words in the verses of the Quran have led to the sharp and intimidating music of warning verses in one hand and to the calm and smooth music of the verses of glad Tidings in the other hand. This article examines the impact of the sound and the meaning in warning and enunciation verses of Surah al-Naba. In this study, holy verses of Surah al-Nabah have been Examined from the phonetics perspective which includes the following items: explaining the special features of letters, identifying the musical impacts, combination of some letters and their characteristics and specific pronunciation. Finally it is worth remembering that the authors of this article have employed the descriptive - analytical method of research in which data have been compared and analyzed in a few tables.