Research Paper
The Effect of Al-Shābbi's Revivalist Poems on Contemporary Poets and Revolutions in the Arab World
The Effect of Al-Shābbi's Revivalist Poems on Contemporary Poets and Revolutions in the Arab World

Mohammad Ali Azar Shab; Ali Zeighami

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 1-22

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58079

Abstract
  Social revivalism and fighting against the stagnation that entangles societies are the main reasons for nation's awakening and their freedom from colonizers and oppressors. The renowned ...  Read More
Research Paper
Semantic Deviation of the Quran in Amal Donqol's Poetry
Semantic Deviation of the Quran in Amal Donqol's Poetry

Ibrahim Anari Bozchallouei; Samira Farahani

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 23-42

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58080

Abstract
  The purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the Holy Quran in Amal Donqol's poetry. Deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first ...  Read More
Research Paper
Dibil's Arguments in Favor of the Prophet's Family (a)
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

Abstract
  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
Research Paper
Rhetorical Mysteries of Interrogation in the Noble Quran
Rhetorical Mysteries of Interrogation in the Noble Quran

Hassan Rezaee Haftador; Roohollah Shaheedee; Sayyedeh Razeeyeh Tawassol; Zeynab Roostayee

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58082

Abstract
  Rhetoric – which means correspondence of discourse to the conditions of the audience – has always been considered as the manifestation of the Quran’s inimitability ...  Read More
Research Paper
Evaluation of Irony in Al-Kashāf Commentary
Evaluation of Irony in Al-Kashāf Commentary

Gholam Abbas Rezaee Haftador; Somayeh Barzin

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 81-100

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58100

Abstract
  Irony is considered as a rhetorical device that is used more frequently than trope and metaphor. Consequently, in spite of all their disagreements in defining irony varieties over centuries, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Recalling the divine prophets in the poems of Mamdūh Adwān: a Case Study of the prophets Josef, Noah, and Moses (a)
Recalling the divine prophets in the poems of Mamdūh Adwān: a Case Study of the prophets Josef, Noah, and Moses (a)

Mohsen Seifi; Robabeh Hosseini Rebat

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 101-118

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58084

Abstract
  Mamdūh Adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary Syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward Arab world's current problems ...  Read More
Research Paper
Homonymy and Polysemy in Arabic Language
Homonymy and Polysemy in Arabic Language

Mahmood Shahbazi

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 119-136

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58091

Abstract
  Homonymy, along with synonymy and contraries, is an important semantic discussion that has been studied and variously defined by linguists in the past. The contemporary linguists believe ...  Read More
Research Paper
Semantic Analysis of Animals Sobriquets in Arabic Language
Semantic Analysis of Animals Sobriquets in Arabic Language

Ali Taheri

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 137-158

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58095

Abstract
  The immense extent and richness of Arabic lexical resources which bring about a great semantic extension, emerge in different ways, one of which is sobriquet. Arabs used “Alam” ...  Read More
Research Paper
Cognitive and Metacognitive Factors in the Process of Learning Arabic Conversation through Desuggestopeida Method
Cognitive and Metacognitive Factors in the Process of Learning Arabic Conversation through Desuggestopeida Method

Adnan Tahmasebi; Sa’adollah Homaiuni

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 159-178

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58097

Abstract
  Arabic language instruction in Iran has always relied on cognitive factors, and has been based on grammar-translation method. Consequently, issues such as Arabic learner's and teacher's ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Brief Look at Adonis' Personas
A Brief Look at Adonis' Personas

Mohammad Ameri-Tabar; Habibollah Abbasi; Naeimeh Ghaffarpoor Sedighi

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 179-200

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58104

Abstract
  Returning to the human heritage is one of the most important concerns of the world's contemporary literature. In this regard, T. S. Eliot's objective correlative was highly welcomed ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Investigation of Ibn Malik's Innovative Approaches Toward Some Syntactic Rules
An Investigation of Ibn Malik's Innovative Approaches Toward Some Syntactic Rules

Abdul Ahad Gheibi; Rahmat Poormohammad; Naser Shafiee

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 201-222

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58108

Abstract
  If we take Ibn Malik as the connecting chain of the interconnected history of syntax, we will find him among the last analytic scholars and theorist grammarians, since in his era, the ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Investigation of the Challenges in Interpreting Persian to and from Arabic
An Investigation of the Challenges in Interpreting Persian to and from Arabic

Abdolhossein Feghhi; hossein salmani

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 223-240

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58089

Abstract
  No doubt that the simultaneous interpretation is one of the most difficult types of translation. This type of translation, which is sometimes called oral translation, has many challenges ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Role of Sentence Intonation in Determination of the Meanings of the Quranic Verses
The Role of Sentence Intonation in Determination of the Meanings of the Quranic Verses

Muhammad Hassan Foadian; Alireza Farazi

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 241-260

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58109

Abstract
  The polysemy and lexical similarity of the linguistic structures may lead to ambiguity in the speech and latency. But since a language needs to be away from this deficiency so as to ...  Read More
Research Paper
A study of the Islamic Epics in the Contemporary Arabic Poetry
A study of the Islamic Epics in the Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Qasem Mokhtari; Mozhgan Nassiri

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, Pages 261-280

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58110

Abstract
  Epic is the poetic narration of heroes' prowess and gallantry in quest of a great desire through a noble style, which has a symbolic structure. Arabic literature has not been familiar ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Shadow of the Quranic Tree of Yaqţin over Hāfiẓs’ Shakhe Nabat
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

Abstract
  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