Arabic Literature - Articles in Press

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Volume 12, Issue 1 , March 2020

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analysis dreamy writting in poetry of Adonis

abolhasan aminmoqaddasi; mahdyeh gheysari

Volume 10, Issue 2 , December 2018, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2018.241688.611784

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The "dream" is a basic and important idiom in Arabic modern poetry and literary criticism. This idiom, influenced by Sufism or some western schools, made significant changes in the ... Read More

A Study of the Syntax of Izz al-Din Kashi’s Sharh al-Mufassal

Dana Talebpour; Mohammadhasan Foadian

Volume 12, Issue 1 , March 2020, , Pages 1-21

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.280338.612061

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Because of its unique stylistic features, many scholars have written commentaries on al-Zamakhshari’s book al-Mufassal. One of the most famous ones is a manuscript commentary by Izz ... Read More

Comparative Study of the Theory of Discipline Abdulqāhir Jurjāni and the Theory of the Texture of the Position of Frith

Sayyed Mohammad Reza Ebnorasool; Marziyeh Ghorbankhani; Nasrolah Shameli

Volume 9, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 17-35

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2018.125181.611271

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Nadhm Theory is one of most important theories in Arabic Rhetoric. This may be due to the extension of the theory and its application and its focus on different aspects of grammatical, ... Read More

A Comparative Study of the Element of Dialogue In the Stories of “Little Black Fish” and “al-Hadiqa al-Ajmal” With an Emphasis on Religious Teachings

Seyyed Mehdi Masboogh; Aboozar Golzar Khojasteh

Volume 10, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 19-35

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2018.127043.611288

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The authors of the children's literature use this type of literature to teach religious teachings and social norms. The teaching of religious concepts, like any other science, requires ... Read More The authors of the children's literature use this type of literature to teach religious teachings and social norms. The teaching of religious concepts, like any other science, requires the identification and application of correct, effective and effective principles and methods. Therefore, as the recognition of the characteristics and abilities of children in optimizing the teaching of religious concepts is certain. Understanding the principles and methods of teaching children's religious concepts is also necessary. Dialogue is one of the most important elements of fictional literature that works along with the narrative structure of the story. And the characters, the theme, the conflicts, and the overall design of the work is consonant. The writers of the story of the child are particularly interested in their artwork, and their works are closely intertwined with dialogue. This paper tries to examine the element of dialogue with the method of structuralist critique and based on the American School of Comparative Literature, emphasizing religious doctrines in the two stories of Little Blackfish by Samad Behrangi and al-Hadiqa al-Ajmal by Zahir Ibrahim Rasam. The results of the research show that among the various functions of dialogue, the advancement of fiction has the highest frequency in two stories and despite the parallels between the story of the little black fish and religious teachings such as helping others, dying, hatred of pride and lies, sometimes there are heterogeneities with religious teachings like not saluting, mocking others, beating and etc. but Abraham Rhyman brought his religious teachings more than a fairy tale in his story and it can be said that his story does not contradict the teachings of Islam and over the story of the little black fish is consistent with religious doctrines. in the case of a dialogue between animals and humans in two stories, too, in the story of the little black fish, dialogue between animals and birds has only taken place but in the story of al-Hadiqa al-Ajmal, the conversation is not limited to animals.

A Stylistic Study of the Discourse-Based Constituents in Amal Donqol’s Poem “A Special Interview with Noah’s Son”

Azaadeh Ghaderi; Seyed Hosein Seyedi; Bahar Seddighi

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, , Pages 19-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.262952.611949

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Identified as a social process, language is used for the creation of meaning and bears ideological connotations across its different layers, while it is employed through interactions ... Read More Identified as a social process, language is used for the creation of meaning and bears ideological connotations across its different layers, while it is employed through interactions with power relations. Poetic language serves as a fertile ground for linguistic and stylistic analyses. Given that stylistics is the study of methods with which meaning is created in literature and other texts through language, studying the function of linguistic patterns is an efficient method for stylistic analysis. Based on critical discourse analysis, discourse semiology, and functional linguistics, this study undertakes the stylistic analysis of Amal Donqol’s “A Special Interview with Noah’s Son.” It argues that the poet has taken up poetic discourse as a social weapon, has selected microlayers of “lexicon,” “syntax,” and “rhetoric” in association with the macrolayers of “ideology,” “power,” and “situational context,” and has personified the infrastructures, in order to tackle the political-economic crisis resulting from the Camp David Accords. The stylistic indicators of his poetry (diction, marked syntactical structures, and rhetorical figures) are discourse-oriented structures that bear ideological content, and according to power relations, lead to the highlighting of the discourse of the friend and the marginalization of that of the foe. Donqol’s attitude towards sociopolitical issues of his country is reflected in his stylistic features, such as choice of words as social signifiers, social indexing, modality in syntactic structures, grammatical voice of the text, along with rhetorical figures such as metaphor, allegory, symbolism, derision and repetition. And these are utilized to express the ideology of resistance against enemies and rejection of the current situation of Egypt and fighting against the policies of the then ruler, Anwar Sadat. Accordingly, this poem is a sociopolitical reading; its poetic language serves as a social action, and its text both makes and is made of social relationships, wherein the poet, considering his own ideology and that of the ruling power, portrays his beliefs by selecting different styles of expression.

Lexical Analysis According to Cognitive Semantics Case Study of Druze of Belgrade by Rabee Jāber

javad asghari; Fateme Jafari

Volume 9, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 21-37

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.134593.611353

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The present study investigated the novel Druze of Belgrade in the shadow of cognitive semantics. This research aims at determining how cognitive semantics functions in polysemic analysis ... Read More

Phonetic Problems Between Non-Arabs Languages Learner;A Phonetic Acoustic Study

Sabah Kadim Bahr al-Ameri

Volume 11, Issue 1 , July 2019, , Pages 23-48

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.72056

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The pronunciation mechanism in the human vocal system enables the production of linguistic sounds of various types, and at levels of performance characterized by accuracy of language ... Read More

A Comparative Study of the Devil Poems of Khalil Hawi and Forough Farrokhzad

sorayya rahimi; kobra roshanfekr

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 23-43

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.261395.611936

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In the religious context, the Devil’s rebellion in the creation myth represents sin, evil, and eternal damnation. But sometimes writers, by disturbing familiar signs and defamiliarization ... Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis of Representation of Iran in Asharq Al-Awsat Based on Van Leeuwen’s Theories

Zeinab Ghasemi Asl; Shahriar Niazi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , July 2020, , Pages 23-42

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.231455.611696

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The present article seeks to analyze the contents of an Arabic newspaper based on the linguistic principles of text and discourse. The importance and necessity of this work is that ... Read More

Postcolonial Reading of Novel Cities of Salt Based on Polyphony Theory of Mikhail Bakhtin

Kamal Baghjari; Yadollah Ahmadi Malayeri; Nasrin Ranjbaran

Volume 13, Issue 3 , November 2021, , Pages 23-44

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.306886.612240

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Post-colonialism and the theory of polyphony are closely related in terms of analyzing the monophonic discourse of power. While Mikhail Bakhtin considers the polyphonic novel as a labyrinthine, ... Read More Post-colonialism and the theory of polyphony are closely related in terms of analyzing the monophonic discourse of power. While Mikhail Bakhtin considers the polyphonic novel as a labyrinthine, colorful world that gives vent to heterogeneous voices, postcolonial theorists attempt to investigate aspects and factors of hegemonic tyranny and discuss the voice of the marginalized and the disadvantaged people as the topic of literary criticism. Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif (the famous Arab novelist), which is a quasi-historical account of the process of the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia and the transformation in the point of view of colonialism (from classic to modern), adopts a polyphonic and dialogic narrative in order to offer a multifarious image of the middle east during the colonial and the post-colonial periods. It sets out to show how the modern colonialist perspective of the United States substitutes the classic British one. In theoretical terms, the present study expounds upon some of the most central components of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony and dialogism so as to apply it to postcolonial studies. In applied terms, the writers have attempted, relying on assumptions of Bakhtin’s polyphonic theory –such as the narrative line, the multiplicity of discourse and the incorporated genres– to offer a postcolonial reading of the pentalogy Cities of Salt. Hence, the findings of the present article can be divided into two theoretical and applied parts: first, dialogism and the polyphonic theory of the novel by Bakhtin can open new horizons in the field of postcolonial studies, such as divulging the hegemonic aspects of the literary text and, more specifically, the narrative. Second, Abdul Rahman Munif, in Cities of Salt, offers various voices and discourses so as to push the dominant discourse of tyranny/ colonialism into a dialogic structure and nullify its made-up authority through juxtaposing it with other, equally valid, anti-discourses. Third, the writer offers incorporated genres adapted from the cultural Arabic-Islamic tradition in order to render null and void the oriental discourse of colonialism, which consists of robbing the colonized of their identity and ignoring their history and culture in an attempt to make them appear as savage barbarians.

The Mechanisms of Cinematography in Woroud al-Moussawi’s Poetry: A Study of Washm al-Aqarib

Zainab Daryanvard; Ali Khezri; Rasool Ballawi

Volume 13, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 25-45

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.294166.612153

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In order to benefit from other arts, poetic discourse has practiced experimental aspects for a long time. That is why poets have taken advantage of modern techniques in their poetry ... Read More

Quranic Stories and Narratology: Researchers’ Critical Methods and Approaches

Soraya Rahimi; Khalil Parvini

Volume 12, Issue 3 , November 2020, , Pages 25-48

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.310613.612283

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The study of the narrative structure of texts has had a significant influence on literary criticism. This influence has even spread to the analysis of Quranic stories so that these ... Read More

A Comparative Study of Contemporary “Eulogies in Honor of the Prophet” and Those in the Period of Decadence

Adnān Tahmāsebi; Hasan Ismā’il-zādeh

Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2010, , Pages 31-51

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Similar to any poetic genre, eulogy of the Prophet (pbuh) has progressed through various stages and experienced vicissitudes of history. The genre was first developed by such great ... Read More

the study of wills in the pre - islamic period and first islamic period (relying on Abd Shams wills and Abubakar wills)

Bahram Amani chakoli

Volume 5, Issue 1 , July 2013, , Pages 37-56

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2013.35585

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Will is one of the techniques of prose that states Important community issues. Will, in the Jahilid period was according to Interpreting minds and personal experience as ... Read More

The Study and Analysis of Paradoxical Music in Nahjol Balaghah

Nematollah Behragham; Masoumeh Shabestari

Volume 8, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 39-58

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.60175

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In spite of the fact that paradox as an unknown literary device has largely been ignored, it has been a source of amazement and, consequently, aesthetic joy due to deviation from norm, ... Read More

Searching in Mahmmud Savi,s critical views to Jurji Zaydan historical novels (For example:ormanoosa almesriah and azra ghoraysh)

Asgar Babazade Aghdam; Bijan karami

Volume 8, Issue 2 , August 2017, , Pages 39-54

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.62557

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Reviewing and analysis of Al-Aqad’s concepts about Ibn Al-Rumi poems

Abolhasan Amin Moghaddasi; Simin Gholami

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 41-60

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.56608

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Al-Aqad was a contemporary prominent critic and writer of Egypt who by authoring the book about Ibn al Rumi life and his poems‚ tried to present thoughtful view points, about ... Read More

Narration Democracy in Ibn Ud’daye’s “Al-Mokafat” Story Collection

Seyyede akram Rakhshandehnia; Shahram Delshad

Volume 15, Issue 3 , September 2023, , Pages 41-56

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.352369.612618

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Considering the complexity and newness of democracy as a category it is natural that many works of Arabic classic literature that adhere to dogmatic traditions, significant principles, ... Read More

Dibil's Arguments in Favor of the Prophet's Family (a)

Reza Rezaee; Fatemeh Rezaee

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 43-60

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58081

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During King Abbas I era, Dibil Khuzāi set out to defend Shia thoughts, especially the rightfulness of Alavies. He has numerous argumentative poems in favor of the Shia thoughts, on ... Read More

Semantic Analyses of the Concept of Social Justice in Holly Quran (Study Subject: Collocations)

Abulhasan Aminmoghaddasi; Nafiseh Afsahi

Volume 15, Issue 1 , March 2023, , Pages 43-60

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.284140.612095

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Collocation is one of the means of semantics that can be used in order to study the meaning exactly by conversation’s analysts. Collocation means the current other words line ... Read More

The Role of Imagery in Conveying Emotion in Adonis’ Palestinian Poetry

Hojjat Rasouli; Sheler Ahmadi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , May 2021, , Pages 43-65

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.295350.612162

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Emotion is an important element in poetry. Other elements including imagery must be at its service, since their value is due to emotion. Adonis, as one of the most innovative contemporary ... Read More

The Phenomenology of Subjectiviy and Practical Implementation of Gender Identity In Raja Alem's Novels Case Study: The Novel of Khatam

sharafat karimi

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2022, , Pages 43-62

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.324577.612393

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In the realm of the theoretical approach of modernist feminists and with a reference to De Beauvoir and Butler's theoretical framework and origins of phenomenology, this research deals ... Read More In the realm of the theoretical approach of modernist feminists and with a reference to De Beauvoir and Butler's theoretical framework and origins of phenomenology, this research deals with the phenomenology of subjectiviy of gender identity and their representation in Rajaa Aalam's works, especially the novel of Khatam and it attempts to study Khatam's non-essential view of women's gender identity in an analytical way. Raja sees the basis of gender identity in the construction of cultural and social discourses, prevailing patriarchal norms, and the result of the systematic implementation and repetition of these norms by the female subject. Her works represent the influence of this trend on the type of discourse, mentality, and performance. In the novel of Khatam, the main character, by repeating the context of the rules, produces and reproduces a gender identity, it in the process of representation, and distorts it through the performance of opposing aspects. The repetition of norms by which this character is known within its counterproduction, activates the hidden potential abilities hidden in the nature of the performance. Unconscious biases, conflict of tendencies and discourses, and mimicry and dominance of norms lead to a double performance which enables Khatam to deconstruct the identity made of the prevailing discourse and cultural norms, to break up the duality between sexes, and to question in some cases the original gender identity. By entering the realm of subjectivity and self-efficacy, she acquires a kind of strength and ability, but in the end she is subject to the predominant power. The characters in Raja's novels often disagree with the pattern they simulate in the implementation process and they try to protect their individuality and redefine their identity. Sometimes, reconstructed social norms will lead to subject deidentification because norms and abnormalities imposed on her to do or reject affairs and finally deidentifies her.

Analytical Study of "Eli Saif Bin Dhi Yazan's Letter" by Abdulaziz Makaleh Based on the Action-Oriented Approach of Greimas

Hossein Elyasi; Zeinab Ghasemiasl

Volume 16, Issue 4 , September 2024, , Pages 43-67

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2024.369159.612765

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Phenomenological and different dimensions of discourse including sensory, perceptual, emotional and aesthetic dimensions are based on systems. Greimas has divided them into action, ... Read More

Writing; Women's Cultural Capital in the Novel "Al-Raviyat" Written by Maha Hassan (Looking at Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of "Types of Capital")

Mohaddetheh Sameie; Abbas Ganjali; Hosein Shamsabadi; Hojjatollah Fesanghari

Volume 16, Issue 2 , May 2024, , Pages 45-63

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.359519.612681

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The most of the works written in the field of women's rights emphasize common elements such as violence against women, forced marriage, women's financial independence, women's self-objectification, ... Read More

Volume 17 (2025)

Volume 16 (2024)

Volume 15 (2023)

Volume 14 (2022)

Volume 13 (2021)

Volume 12 (2020)

Volume 11 (2019)

Volume 10 (2018)

Volume 9 (2017)

Volume 8 (2016)

Volume 7 (2015)

Volume 6 (2014)

Volume 5 (2013)

Volume 4 (2012)

Volume 3 (2011)

Volume 1 (2010)

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