The present paper attempts to investigate a psychoanalytical study on Bashar Ibn Bord, a sightless and great poet of the Abbasid dynasty. This study employs psychoanalytical theories of Adler, Rank, and Freud in order to find out the poet's motives in creating his works. This paper first ...
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The present paper attempts to investigate a psychoanalytical study on Bashar Ibn Bord, a sightless and great poet of the Abbasid dynasty. This study employs psychoanalytical theories of Adler, Rank, and Freud in order to find out the poet's motives in creating his works. This paper first considers the social environment that has shaped the poet's personality; moreover, Ibn Bord's neurotic personality is studied according to Rank's. Then, his inferiority complex is discussed according to Adler's and finally, the poet's personality disorder, anti- socialism probably being the source of many of his attacks is taken into account. Ibn Bord's defense mechanism to cover his deficiencies such as sightlessness is examined from Freud's perspectives.
Poetic imagery is the result of poet's emotional and mental experiences. The role of poetic imagery in transferring the emotional and mental experiences and reflecting on its elements indicates the poet's worldview. This is to the point where the impact on the addressee and the quality of the literary ...
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Poetic imagery is the result of poet's emotional and mental experiences. The role of poetic imagery in transferring the emotional and mental experiences and reflecting on its elements indicates the poet's worldview. This is to the point where the impact on the addressee and the quality of the literary work cannot be denied. Investigating this feature and its function in the poetry of Shia's Arabic poets, as a branch of Islamic Literature includes a great part of Arabic poetries, is an issue that a descriptive and analytical approach of the present paper deals with. The findings show that the use of poetic imagery by Shia's poets seems to act as a weapon against the rulers and authorities of the time. By using true emotional and mental poetic imagery, the Shia poets have impressed their readers and have given them certain grandeur and glory.
Towqyat is the common art of prose of different eras that were produced in early Islam, published during the Umayyad period and flourished during Abbasid period. It was then transferred to Andalusia and finally scattered around the world. However, after the mortal invasion of Mogul, similar to other ...
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Towqyat is the common art of prose of different eras that were produced in early Islam, published during the Umayyad period and flourished during Abbasid period. It was then transferred to Andalusia and finally scattered around the world. However, after the mortal invasion of Mogul, similar to other literary forms, it disappeared without any trace. Again at the time of Ottoman and Mamluk appeared in different form and regenerated with the name of writing composition. Towqyat during Abbasid dynasty is not very different in style form the time Umayyad's. Style is based on, concentration, clarity of thinking, ellipses, and brevity in form. Despite effloresce of Towqyat during Abbasid period, the latter part of their dynasty, artistic prose went towards literary devices and verbosity; even though, the base of Towqyat was ellipses and concentration. Factors that led to the spread and persistence of this technique in can be summarize as variety of state's affairs, and urgent need of the people, and their applications from rulers, nature of the petition that demands rapid response and accuracy of the leader's thought and their cultural width.
Numerous literary works, since the birth of Imam Ali up to the present time, have been written to praise and describe the life of Imam Ali, many of which contain elegant semantics and beautiful words and expressions not only in Shia's prose and poetry but also in the works of Arab Christians. The present ...
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Numerous literary works, since the birth of Imam Ali up to the present time, have been written to praise and describe the life of Imam Ali, many of which contain elegant semantics and beautiful words and expressions not only in Shia's prose and poetry but also in the works of Arab Christians. The present paper studies the contemporary works of literary Christians such as George Gordagh, Abdul-Masih Antaki, Josef Al-Hashem, Nasri Sahlab, Bols Salameh and others. Their works have been categorized and their turning points have been chosen and analyzed. Some events of the Imam's birth such as the crack of the Kaaba, emission of light, and many other secrets of his birth are studied under an analytical approach.
Apostrophe is a figure of speech that is in many books of Arabic rhetoric or Persian introduced as change of view and there are limited types of stylistic and semantic changes. Although apostrophe and its signs have not been ignored in eras of Persian and Arabic rhetoric, undoubtedly, the development ...
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Apostrophe is a figure of speech that is in many books of Arabic rhetoric or Persian introduced as change of view and there are limited types of stylistic and semantic changes. Although apostrophe and its signs have not been ignored in eras of Persian and Arabic rhetoric, undoubtedly, the development of this figure of speech is indebted to the researches by Muslim rhetoricians in proving the miracles of the Koran. This article attempts to examine the use of this literary technique in different types of stylistic changes in the cotext of the Koran; changes such as changing pronouns, numbers, prepositions, verb tense, the change of the audience, the use of noun instead of pronoun and so forth. These stylistic changes are explained with examples and reference to commentators' views. This research shows apostrophe as an important feature of the Koran and different kinds of it, are more remarkable than its application in the works of genius Arab and Persian rhetoricians.
Stories written for children play an important role in developing their personalities. The child infers many of the moral values through reading good and instructive stories. Courage, altruism, hopefulness, freedom, advocating truth and standing against tyranny and violence are among the values that ...
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Stories written for children play an important role in developing their personalities. The child infers many of the moral values through reading good and instructive stories. Courage, altruism, hopefulness, freedom, advocating truth and standing against tyranny and violence are among the values that shape the central core of many children's stories. This causes the development of cognitive, emotional and social skills in children. Even if this kind of literature enjoys a long history but a scientific study of it took place after centuries. Children's literature developed during the mid-nineteenth century in Arabian countries and Egyptians were the pioneer. Nabil Soleiman Khalaf, the contemporary Egyptian writer has contributed to the development and growth of this kind of literature in Egypt and the world by writing more than twenty books for children. Based on the story, The Princess, The Red Butterfly, by Naabil Khalaf, the present study is intended to analyze writer's purpose of writing for children, the language and characters of his stories. The findings of the study indicate that the writer aims to improve creativity and imagination, decision making, and child reasoning to prepare them for social life. Emotional complexes and decreasing interaction among family members due to the busy schedules of parents are among other contents of the story. Since the stories are written for children, the author writes from a child's perspective and considers their language capacity; in other words he writes in a simple and comprehensive way. The author seeks the proper realization of social, instructive, moral, and scientific goals in the young generation of Egypt via the presentation of the characters of the story.
The belief that the soul originates from the celestial world and it is imprisoned in the material world as a result of negligence is a fundamental belief in mysticism. Sophists try to purify the soul through knowledge and wisdom before it unites with the God in the afterworld. Avicenna focuses on this ...
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The belief that the soul originates from the celestial world and it is imprisoned in the material world as a result of negligence is a fundamental belief in mysticism. Sophists try to purify the soul through knowledge and wisdom before it unites with the God in the afterworld. Avicenna focuses on this purification in his Ode, Einieh, and the contemporary Arab poet, Nasib Arizeh, in his long piece of poetry, Ala-Tarighe-Eram, follows the example of Einieh. Nasib Arizeh makes use of several terms and themes of Islamic mysticism including joiner, sorrow, spark and confrontation of light, celestial world, and darkness, the materialistic world. This paper explores the similarities and differences between the two odes and discusses the influence of Eineh on Ala-Tarighe-Eram.
Although some believe that stylistics is a new knowledge, but the first scientists who paid attention to style were rhetoricians. Stylistic deviation is clearly evident in the rhetoric. Some of its rules are based on semantic deviation and others are based on the verbal deviation. Semantics rhetoric ...
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Although some believe that stylistics is a new knowledge, but the first scientists who paid attention to style were rhetoricians. Stylistic deviation is clearly evident in the rhetoric. Some of its rules are based on semantic deviation and others are based on the verbal deviation. Semantics rhetoric does not often deal with issues based on defamiliarization. Genetic stylistics attempts to relate the writer's emotions to his style. In rhetoric the poet's mood is evident; however, it has not been dealt with as it should have. Structural stylistics examines a literary work as one piece and considers words and their meanings in relation to other. Semantics also deals with some rules and issues in the same manner. Rhetoricians discussed composition only in one or a couple of sentences. Descriptive stylistics measures words and phrases with similar themes and talks about the different kinds of emotions that it creates. Semantics expresses some of its issues in the same way but to some extent, it becomes authoritative and dominant. In the phonetic stylistics, semantics has defined the condition of words and word fluency in relation to musical aspects, such as being devoid of cacophony, reluctant to listen, repetition, and so forth. The findings show that there is a close bond between stylistics and rhetorician especially that of semantics.
Meditating the Koran's translation indicates the faithfulness of senior translators to Islam and words of God. This way they save themselves from any kind of scandal they were accused of in translating Koran to non-Arabic languages. Kashful Asrar and Edato Al-abrar Meybodi contain literal translations. ...
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Meditating the Koran's translation indicates the faithfulness of senior translators to Islam and words of God. This way they save themselves from any kind of scandal they were accused of in translating Koran to non-Arabic languages. Kashful Asrar and Edato Al-abrar Meybodi contain literal translations. It has translated the Koran with care and virtuosity. Therefore, exploring this literary piece familiarizes the reader with beautiful and new words, expressions and compound words. In this article we have endeavored to show the Persian translation and the capacity of this language to convey various meanings
Prophets' poets have expressed virtues of the infallible Imams in their most beautiful mode reminding us of their legitimacy. Seyyed Homeyri is among the poets who has dedicated his poetries to Imams' family; political and ideological inclinations are manifested in his works. His literary enthusiasm ...
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Prophets' poets have expressed virtues of the infallible Imams in their most beautiful mode reminding us of their legitimacy. Seyyed Homeyri is among the poets who has dedicated his poetries to Imams' family; political and ideological inclinations are manifested in his works. His literary enthusiasm led him to compose splendid and lasting odes on the greatness and ethical virtues of Imam Ali. To delineate the visage of the Imam Ali, Homeyri has described the lofty qualities of the Imam such as his piety, justice, courage, knowledge, and sacrifice. Homeyri's full conversance with the history and anecdotes of the Prophet's family along with his proficiency in the contents of the Holy Koran have enabled him to make use of eloquent devices such as allusion, adaptation, pun and other literary elements in his poetry. Based on a descriptive-analytical approach, the present paper studies the virtues of Imam Ali in Seyyed Homeyri's poetries and it indicates Homeyri as a true poet of the prophets' family who has responded to a call from inside. In describing the virtues of the Imam Ali, his poetry represents his strong faith in the legitimacy of the Prophet's family.
This article aims to study some of the widely used Persian words that are considered, either consciously or unknowingly, Arabic. Both in spoken and written form, these words are dealt as though they are Arabic. The paper also endeavors to explain the factors that have led to identifying these Persian ...
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This article aims to study some of the widely used Persian words that are considered, either consciously or unknowingly, Arabic. Both in spoken and written form, these words are dealt as though they are Arabic. The paper also endeavors to explain the factors that have led to identifying these Persian words as Arabic. Etymological approach proves that common rhyming and pronunciation cannot be the criterion for word root recognition and the best way is to find the root and origin of words.
According to many Arab critics Nizar Qabani is a phenomenon in the area of modern poem both in style and poetic content. He relates to pure love lyrics and women's issues. This way she has been able to express what is believed to be earthly love. She is therefore, named the 'poet of women and love'. ...
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According to many Arab critics Nizar Qabani is a phenomenon in the area of modern poem both in style and poetic content. He relates to pure love lyrics and women's issues. This way she has been able to express what is believed to be earthly love. She is therefore, named the 'poet of women and love'. Apart from lyric poems like other committed poets, she has discussed political, topical, ethnic and national issues. This paper investigates the politic and social aspects of this Arab poetess with a descriptive-analytical approach. In conclusion, studying Nizar's life and poems shows that in addition to other his titles, she should be considered a 'National committed poetess'.
