Arabic Literature - Articles in Press

Deep Structure of Irony in Amal Donqol’s Poetry and Quranic Intertextuality

Faramarz Mirzaei; Reza Tavazuei; Sayyed Reza Musavi

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 301-324

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.56706

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Humour irony " clear political poetry feature is a prominent Egyptian poet Amal Donqol to signalized it by timely and artistically benefit Quranic verses and themes. To indicate diffrences ... Read More

“An outlook toward writing of Arabic-to-Persian lexicons and introduction of Kholasat-Al-Loghat by Jonabazi”

Abdul Hossein Feghhi; Hossein Mohtadi

Volume 3, Issue 3 , February 2012, , Pages 333-362

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In a survey on development trend of humanities, particularly in the field of Arabic literature, Holy Quran as well as Muslims’ efforts for its comprehension and interpretation played ... Read More

Semantic Analysis of the Term “Salām” in Sheikh Tūsi' s Tafsir

Hassan Kazemi Sahlavani; Sayyed Ebrahim Dibaji; Gholam Abbas Rezayi Haftadur

Volume 9, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 249-260

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.124252.611320

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Being repeated for 43 times and having 5 semantic implications, “Salām” is a Quran term through it God greeted his prophets and ordered human beings to greet each other ... Read More

Investigating of Kurdish Writers Roles in Arabic Literary Evolution in Abbasid Era

sholeh zahiri; Enayatollah Fatehinejad

Volume 10, Issue 2 , December 2018, , Pages 249-269

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.112698.611187

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Investigating of Kurd’s roles in Arabic literary evolution in comparative literature refers back to French schools since ethnic scholars were influential in other’s literature. ... Read More Investigating of Kurd’s roles in Arabic literary evolution in comparative literature refers back to French schools since ethnic scholars were influential in other’s literature. Arabic literature succeeded by Muslim scholars from different nations during Abbasid Era, among them Kurd’s share was noticeble due to cultural and political and lingual and ideological relations. In the abbasid era kurds with first class scholars and scientist and useful books in the any aspect of arabic literature had an essential role in revolution of it. Although Kurds offered useful services to Arabic literature and other scientific domains, their roles and influence in Arab science and its subcategories like syntax, Rhetoric, analysis, and history writing were more noticeable. During Abbasid Era, kurdish scholars and writers like Dinewari, Ᾱmedi, and Jazari offered a different imagination of Arabic language and literature. Ebn Qutybeh, Beshr Ᾱmedy, and Ibn Athir made a revolution in Arab literature by works like "al-shiʿr wa al-shuʿarᾱ", "al-Muwᾱzana", "al-Mathal Al-saʾir" and Abo Ali Ghali’s masterpiece In"Al maᾱli va Al bᾱrea And Ibn Geni’s work in Khasᾱʾyes va sirr Al sinᾱʿa in is noticable. and Abu Ali Alـghᾱli book about philology and any other remained writings by Sᾱebi _harani and Khatib- hasfaki about prose poem made a great revolution in the arabic language literature. In this study, attempts have been made to investigate descriptively and analytically what Kurds scholars have done in different scientific and historical domains of Arab literature. Furthermore, this study shows the place of Kurd’s as a part of Islamic culture and civilization and their influential roles in literary evolution of this era. the findings of this research shows that abbasid era was the most important that kurds have been at the service of the arabic language literature and they throw all attention to this language and imagine it to all as possible.

Different world of natural symbols in the poetry of Adonis

amir morteza; hamed sedghi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 263-282

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.60171

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Contemporary poetry has always aimed at achieving its goal in reflecting social & political ... Read More

Fertility pattern in The contemporary Persian and Arabic poets; with the study of Shamloo and Sayyab poem

leili naderi; Sayyed Ibrahim Arman

Volume 8, Issue 2 , August 2017, , Pages 267-282

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.62569

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The Eulogy of the Prophet Mohammad in Shaghratisi’s Lamia

soudabeh mozaffari; Fatemeh Ganj khanloo

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 273-292

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.138617.611382

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Undoubtedly, in the history of Islam, there are traces of eulogy of the prophet Mohammad in the poetry and prose masterpieces written by Muslim and non-Muslim literary scholars at different ... Read More

The Shadow of the Quranic Tree of Yaqţin over Hāfiẓs’ Shakhe Nabat

ali nazari

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 281-300

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58088

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The Holy Quran is one of the main fountainheads of Hāfiẓ idiolect and thought. Hāfiẓs’ sweet poetry is, indeed, intertwined with the Good Tree of Quran. The assumption in ... Read More

Artistic Iconography in the poems of Andalus Poets

Abdolvahid Navidi; Mojtaba Emrani-Pour

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 325-346

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.56709

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Image is the most operative and commonly used term in the field of literary criticism which has been in use since along time ago and became much favorite and accepted during the new ... Read More

“Arabic/ Persian image of other in two Persian and Arabic sample narrations e.g. Ahmad Mahmoud and Abdul Rahman Munif”

Yadollah Ahmadi Malayeri

Volume 3, Issue 3 , February 2012, , Pages 363-386

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This study aims to show the changes of the image of Arabic/Persian other in the novels of Iranian author, Ahmad Mahmud and Arabic author¬, Abd Al-Rahman Munif. In this comparative ... Read More

Olive,the Symbol of Resistance in the Palestinian Contemporary Poetry

Amir Moqaddam Mottaqi

Volume 9, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 261-278

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.110309.611164

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Symbol has always had a significant role in contemporary Arab literature, particularly in poetry of resistance; as we always see the frequent use of symbolic terms and words in it. ... Read More

Typology of Quranic Narratives in Discovering Social and Semantic Functions of Item, Analysis of Moses and Samiri

Ebrahim Fallah; sajad shafipour

Volume 10, Issue 2 , December 2018, , Pages 271-290

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.245907.611814

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In this study, the typology of the narrative structure of Moses (AS) and Samiri in two macro-level stories as the basis and raw material of narrative and speech including the artistic ... Read More

Sarcasm in Nizār Qabbāni’s Work “Hawāmish Ala Daftar al_Naksah”

Sayyed Reza Mirahmadi; Ali Najafi Ivaki; Seppideh aqajanpur

Volume 8, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 283-304

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.60185

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Nizār Qabbāni,the contemporary Syrian Poet (1923-1998), is known as the poet of woman in the field of poetry and have been mostly criticised from this poin of view. A detailed scrutiny ... Read More

A Study of Contemporary Arab Critics’ Views on Signification of Meaning in Poetry

Abolhasan Amin moghaddasi; farzaneh Ajorloo

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 295-314

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.253415.611871

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The signification of meaning by terms in poetry, in a way, resembles the conventional system of language in that each term signifies its own signified meaning. This is the symbolic ... Read More

Verbal Irony in Jāhiz’s Fables in the Book of “al-Būkhalā”

hasan meghyasi; Samira Farahani

Volume 9, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 279-294

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.214530.611537

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One of the most important kinds of ironies is verbal irony which has been utilized in the level, and in this oral method which words meaning, consciously and unconsciously, opposite ... Read More

The Impact of Palestinian Sustainability on Human Discourse in Fadwᾱ Touqᾱn’s Poetry

Navid Piri; Mehdi Torkshavand; Ali Asghar Eskandari

Volume 10, Issue 2 , December 2018, , Pages 291-309

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.241552.611782

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Concepts and values like liberty, love and dignity which are innately familiar to human beings have a special place in Fadwᾱ Touqᾱn’s Divan and shape his humanistic discourse. ... Read More Concepts and values like liberty, love and dignity which are innately familiar to human beings have a special place in Fadwᾱ Touqᾱn’s Divan and shape his humanistic discourse. Using the mysterious and alluding language of the poet to transfer the discursive concepts and the emphasis on the internal and external correlation, in the first place, expresses the stifling of the society, and in continuation indicates the poet’ s effort to grasp the line of union. This research studies the effects of resilience of Palestine on the humanistic discourse in Fadwᾱ Touqᾱn’s Divan. The research method is descriptive-analytic and uses the existing documents related to the subject matter. The categories studies in this paper are: love, liberty, dignity, fighting against oppression and death. The most important findings of this study include impersonality of love, love as a genuine social value which is rooted in homeland and its people, liberty as equivalent with life, death as equivalent with life, realisation of the poets’ prophecy in safe guarding the dignity of the people of the homeland, defining the way to dignity in realisation of the freedom of the homeland and coming home of the refugees, using the metaphor of plague for the oppression and injustice which has shredded the homeland and defining the way out of it by collecting all the internal and external forces, belief in the necessity of the flesh to return back to the soil of the homeland because it came from the same soil to get resurrected and declaring this as the reason for the delight of death. From the viewpoint of Fadwᾱ Touqᾱn, the freedom will be more lasting if it is attained by fighting and struggling and its permanence will be greater for future generations. Love is the leaven of unity that can trigger the love of the homeland, and the body, rising from the earth, must return to the same origin; and in this way the poet rushes to meet death.

Sahib ibn Abbad’s Rooznamejeh and His Daily Account of Baghdad

Hossein Imanian

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 317-338

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.274522.612021

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There is no doubt that most of post-Islamic Iranian ancient literature, either in Persian or Arabic, is still in the form of manuscripts which have not been corrected. Even those corrected ... Read More

Sources of Arabic Verses and Phrases of Maqᾱmᾱt-i-Ḥamidi (Ḥamidi Short Stories): part II

Sayyed Morteza Hoseini

Volume 10, Issue 2 , December 2018, , Pages 313-332

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.134780.611354

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Writing Maqᾱmᾱt in Prose Persian for first time Emerged With Maqᾱmᾱt of Judge Ḥamid al-Din Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Omar ibn Ali Balkhi From the masterpieces of Persian prose ... Read More

The Study and Investigation of the Zubdat al-I’rab Manuscript Written by AbdAllah-Ibn-Muhammad

Faezeh Safaieh; Abdolhossein Feghhi,

Volume 14, Issue 1 , May 2022, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.311326.612289

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The manuscripts are the written heritages and possessions of our predecessors and their maintenance and retention is of great importance. The “Zobdat al-E’rab” manuscript, ... Read More The manuscripts are the written heritages and possessions of our predecessors and their maintenance and retention is of great importance. The “Zobdat al-E’rab” manuscript, which is written by “AbdAllah-Ibn-Muhammad”, is a book including Morphological and syntactical topics, which in particular deals with the grammatical analysis and brief description of the “Ezhar al-Asrar Fi al-Nahv” that is written by “Muhammad-Ibn-PirAli-Ibn-Eskandar Berkavy”. Besides the technical, educational and scientific worthiness and importance, this book worths noting, correction and criticism since it is the first grammatical analysis of the “Ezhar al-Asrar” book. It should be emphasized that the “Ezhar Al-asrar” book is among the important and significant morphological scientific and educational books which is taught in most of the religious schools of Turkey. Four copies of the “Zobdat-al-E’rab” have been found in the libraries all over the world, which one of them preserves in the library of the Islamic Parliament of Iran. Other copies of this valuable book exist in big libraries in the world such as the French National library and library of the “King Faisal” university. Using a descriptive, analytical approach, this paper provides biographies of the authors of the “Ezhar al-Asrar” and the “Zobdat al-E’rab ” books and introduces the “Zobdat al-E’rab” manuscript completely. Also, the excellences, shortcomings and technical issues of the manuscript have been presented which are obtained during the collation, investigation, and correction. The exact writing dates for two copies of this manuscript are unknown to us. Also the writing dates of the two other copies are much later than the writing date of the original copy. As a result, determination of the first and the original copy seems to be difficult. One of the important results which is obtained and reported by this paper is the best way which can be used in order to correct this manuscript.

A Study of the Ruler Archetype in Little Death Based on Pearson-Maar Theory

Ali Asvadi; Zahra Izadi

Volume 13, Issue 4 , March 2022, , Pages 1-15

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.316086.612338

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The character and its transcendence are common themes between mysticism, psychology, and literature. Hence, mystics and psychologists have always been curious about understanding it ... Read More The character and its transcendence are common themes between mysticism, psychology, and literature. Hence, mystics and psychologists have always been curious about understanding it and identifying the path of its evolution. This curiosity has also been manifested in literature. Salient characters' appearance as heroes further adds to the significance of the function of the Self archetype. Little Death narrates the formation of the character of one of the distinguished faces of mysticism and Islamic Sufism, Muhyī al-Dīn Arabi. In a way known as the father of the unity of existence in Islamic thought, Ibn Arabi opened a new window to Islamic mysticism by founding theoretical mysticism. Ibn Arabi has propounded many theories in mysticism, the most important of which is the unity of existence and perfect man. The elevation and growth of the character are among the subjects that have reduced the distance between new psychological theories and genuine concepts in mysticism, such as the perfect man theory. Inspired by the autobiography produced by Sheik Akbar in his book Meccan Revelations, Mohammad Hassan Alwan adopts a post-modernist approach to narrate two parallel stories. The first story expresses the life events of Ibn Arabi, and the second story tells his biography. This paper examines the character of Ibn Arabi from a psychological and theoretical perspective based on the Pearson-Mar theory.To this end, the two stories were separated, and only the story of Ibn Arabi's life events was examined. Examining the ideas of Ibn Arabi indicated a significant relationship between his theory of perfect man and the archetype of the ruler (among the twelve archetypes of the Pearson-Maar theory). Upon departure, initiation, and return, the protagonist reveals the characteristics of the ruler archetype, which are close to the characteristics of the perfect man propounded by Ibn Arabi: Each has specific criteria for self-actualization of character potentials.

The Functioning of the Factor Model in the Novel Al-Sinbad Al-Aama by Buthaina Al-Isa in the Light of the Structural Perspectives of Julian Greimas

Khalil Hamdawi; Mohammad javad Pourabed; Naser Zare; Rasool Ballwy

Volume 15, Issue 4 , November 2023, , Pages 1-23

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.339070.612514

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Greimas factor model is one of the basic components of Greimas propositions about the surface structure of the text. The factor model is based on three models of factors: essence/subject, ... Read More

The Semiotics of “Title” in Mohammad Helmi al-Risheh's Poetry; Cases Studies: “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil”

Nahid Phishgam; Yahya Maroof; Majid Mohammadi

Volume 13, Issue 4 , March 2022, , Pages 17-37

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.320023.612368

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Literary semiotics, as a modern science at the present time, seeks to decode and discover the signs of the text by using the syntagmatic relations between words and the special arrangement ... Read More Literary semiotics, as a modern science at the present time, seeks to decode and discover the signs of the text by using the syntagmatic relations between words and the special arrangement of words. “Title” of text is one of the important codes of semiotics and is the showcase of text which can have an important relationship with the main text and guides the reader to discover the author's mental concepts; hence it can be said that “title” plays an important role in decoding a text. Mohammad Helmi Al-Risheh (1985) is one of the poets who often uses symbols and signs to convey his poetic mission to the audience.He considers “title” as a key to entering the text, and has paid special attention to it. “Title” at the beginning of many of his odes gives a fillip to the mind of audience. in this paper, “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil” will be discussed as the cases studies.Since the titles of the three poems are based on the invoking of Quranic stories, the present study aims to investigate the title of these odes from semiotic perspective and analyze their relationship with the main text based on the Quranic intertextuality. This paper also recounts the poet's purpose for invoking the Quranic stories and examines the functions of the title of the text during its reading and explores the titles at the structural and significational level and analyzes its functions.The findings of this research indicate that the titles of the poems have been taken from Quranic stories and is in line with the main text, which the poet has used to induce his mental schemata. Also, titles are sometimes directly related to the text; that is, in terms of meaning and sound, they have been taken from the text and sometimes their function is indirect. So the reader to discover this relationship needs more effort. Also, the mentioned titles are signifiers with their own signified and have descriptive and attractive functions.

The Metafiction Techniques and Play in the Novel The Game of Forgetting

Razieh Sadrikhanloo; Alireza Shaikhi; Abd-ol,ali Alebooye Langeroodi; Mostafa Parsaeipour

Volume 14, Issue 1 , May 2022, , Pages 21-41

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.320833.612372

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Metafiction is the author's writing style and the style of consciously and deliberately playing on narrative structures and subjecting the skills of writing. By deviating or escaping ... Read More Metafiction is the author's writing style and the style of consciously and deliberately playing on narrative structures and subjecting the skills of writing. By deviating or escaping from the established norms of traditional narrative and even adhering to it, metafiction tries to introduce the previous literariness and self-consciousness as a hollow deviation, And expose the narrative tricks of claiming to be truthful - for the unrighteous purpose of absolute truthfulness - in order to prove that it is impossible to resolve the conflict between voices and ideologies by subjugating them under the voice of an omniscient and God-like author, And happily demonstrates the impossibility of the ultimate understanding of truth in the light of one-sided domination. Metafiction as a sub-genre, with its mentally processing and self-evaluative and dialectical annotations, seeks to clarify the truth with an enlightening reflection on the processes of creation of the story, and relying on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, along with clarifying the nature of the story. Combined with the concept of relativism, game theory, as a way of properly understanding world routines, contributes to the realistic achievements of literature in the metafiction as a self-founded activity with definite value in the real world. By pretending to play roles and contracts of the game, the unstructured and arbitrary nature of the game, helps metafiction -while exploring the functions and seemingly known but practically unknown nature of the story- to shatter dysfunctional traditions and unpopular worldviews. In recognizing these Attitudes of recently known paradigm in metafiction, relying on descriptive-analytical research method and processing metafiction theory data, we intend especially from the point of view of "Patricia Waugh", to understand the efficiency of the components of metafiction and explain its qualities and the role of play in the promotion of making metafiction, in the novel The Game of Forgetting by “Mohammad Baradeh”, to recognize the innovations of the first Arab step in the migration from the absolutist ideas of modernism in fictional factology. Researching these cases we found out that M.Barrada, in the application of tricky techniques like short-circuit, trick revelation, character rebellion, metafictonal collage, and arbitrary naming, he always acting gamefully, owes much to the principle of relativism and the multi-faceted nature of truth and and thus establishes a solid basis for Arabic metafiction.

The Language and the Emotion of Love in Surat Yusuf - Peace Be Upon Him

Seyede afaf Mohammadi; Jalal Marami

Volume 15, Issue 4 , November 2023, , Pages 25-42

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.350482.612616

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Language, along with all the signs and symbols of this word, is an important event in different peoples’ minds, regardless of their eras, homelands, and specializations. Researchers ... Read More Language, along with all the signs and symbols of this word, is an important event in different peoples’ minds, regardless of their eras, homelands, and specializations. Researchers are looking deeper to find out what lies behind it. It is the spoken or written language of the impulse that led to its emergence, and since man used it in dialogue and writing, he expresses himself without others and is silent about it.This process, word selection, takes place in a specific area of the human mind. This work includes two human sciences: psychology and linguistics, that is, the sciences that study human thought, and the sciences that study the language. The most appropriate is what a person speaks, the words that express his thoughts and emotions. So the relationship between language, thought and emotions is a mutual relationship of influence and vulnerability, and all kinds of ideas are expressed by language, so language can perform two main functions; It may be a tool for expressing objective facts and issues, and in this case, its aim is simply to communicate and convey ideas, but it may also have an emotional and dynamic function mainly, that is, its function then is to express emotions and emotions, stir up feelings and influence behavior. Human... All aspects of language related to the emotional impact of language on speech may contribute, including stress, rhythm, intonation, word choice, suffixes, word order, and placement within sentences and phrases.Through the analytical approach, this research aims to reveal the rhetorical aspects of the emotion of love in Surat Yusuf (peace be upon him), 1- enrich the applied aspect in the Quranic rhetoric, and demonstrate the impact of the rhetorical approach in revealing meanings and persuading them and their synergy in highlighting the meanings and serving them. 2- Changing the stylistic pattern according to the requirements of each speech, whether in terms of the speaker or terms of the event. 3- The language of Yusuf (PBUH) was promoted. 4- The appearance of the beloved's wife's speech more than others in the emotion of love, and its diversity on three levels: the letter of desire, the letter of threat, and the speech of confession and repentance. 5- The integrity of the language of the story from all negative effects, despite the sensitivity of the subject

A Study of Principles of Critical Realism in the Novel of An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon

Zahra Haghayeghi; Ahmadreza Heidaryan shahri; Bahar Seddighi

Volume 13, Issue 4 , March 2022, , Pages 39-62

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.317482.612345

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Critical realism as a literary school has a special place in the critique of fiction, a school that reflects social life with an objective approach to facts. Samuel Shimon in his novel ... Read More

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