Studies on Arabic Language and Literature

Abstract This research is on exploration of Saniya Saleh's poetry. It tries to specify its literary position and the significance of its originality. Although this article emphasizes that this poetess follow the modernist movement in Arabic poetry, it by no means posits her Poetry in contrast with the traditional Arabic Poetry, which enjoys meters and rhymes. In fact, this article maintains that Saniya Saleh's poetry has been able to resist the innovations emerging in modern Arabic poetry. This has been discussed along two trajectories in order to illustrate the stylistic features of this poetess: 1. defamiliarization and 2. transcending religious beliefs.

Abstract   Abdul Qaher Al-Jerjani was distinguished in vision accuracy and reasoning of method, which helped him to deal with the case of Koranic Inwlnerability through his research in versification, after having polarized all its aspects to become a theory which studies confirm its correctness through the ages.   He could have that without his possession to the "linguistic" expertise based on a true  vision for cases that still in research, this expertise was a safe foundation, paved to sound method, enabled him to reach the greatest results.  We attempt in this research to show his attitudes to the most essential cases, on itsfoundations his rhetorical thought was erected, and which were the crutches that enforced the structure of versification theory, and represented in the grammatical foundation, and the organic relation between language and thought, and this leads us observe his vision of therelation between language and society, and then exhibits his position in the case of locality which is still under research by the scholars, to stand finally at the phenomenon of the connotational transfonnation which fonns a fertile field for linguistic innovation, which made it common phenomenon between literary studies and the linguistic studies.

Abstract Abu Attayeb al-Mutanabbi was a genius in Arabic poetry .It is said that he was a rare notable of his time and his poems are a source of inspiration for many poets and figures. However, in the 4th century (AH), many views were expressed about flaws and weaknesses in his poetry. Maybe it was this trend that made Ali binAbdul Aziz al-Jurjani write a book on this matter entitled The Mediation between al-Mutanabbi and His Opponents to mediate between al-Mutanabbi and His critics. This research is intended to investigate Jurjani's method of defending al-Mutanabbi, a method which later become a principle reference in Arabic literary criticism.

Abstract This is an investigation of some samples of Ibn Malik al-amwi's Poetry in the Mamluk Period. The article aims to explore the mechanism, procedures and strategies of text production and provides a typology of them, specifying their effectiveness in constructing texts and conveying intended concepts and meanings. Accordingly, first, we have discussed the employment of different types of intertextual strategies. Then we have considered the significance of such textual and stylistic strategies and the current potterns of this practice.

Abstract This article discusses the literary character of Kumeit, a renowned Shi’ite poet during Umayyad dynasty. It attempts to defend the credibility of the citations made to Kumeit’s Poems. It also responds to some of the misgivings about this credibility. To this end, major literary works have been examined in order to explain the different literary and poetic techniques and devices such as lexicon, grammar and syntax, rhetoric, and the related disciplines such as jurisprudence, interpretation and commentary of the holy Prophet’s sayings and parables have been explained. Moreover, this study gives an estimation of the number of the literary references made to Kumeit in these resources and some of them have been referred to as examples. Of course, it should be noted that despite heavy criticisms and accusations directed toward him both during his lifetime and after his death, Kumeit has been the focus of attention of great literary figures. His poems have frequently been cited in different areas such as lexicon.

Abstract    The sea was the principal means of subsistence for people in Kwait in the past. It provided them both pearls and fish, people also used it as a route to export and import goods. It was very difficult to work in the sea and sailors often lost their lives there. The first part of this article concerns one of the longest Kwaiti poems written by the contemporary Kwaiti poet, Muhammad al-Fayez, who travelled along with sailors and returned home to find his family in dire misery. The second part of the article is a critical analysis of the poem asserting these features about the poem:   · This poem is the first attempt at recording Kwaiti marine history by a poet who was himself a seafarer.   · We can notice obvious traces of asSayyab and alBayati in the Muthakkarat al-Bahhar.   · Al-Fayez successfully painted a vivid picture of divers and voyages.   · Universal human feelings are expressed in specific experiences with the poet directly involved in them.    

Abstract Although the majority of the scholars of the Arabic prosody share the belief that Mutadārik meter was devised and added to the Khalili's Fifteen Meters by Akhfash Owsat, historical and structural investigations show that this meter can not be his innovation. This article also attempts to introduce the real innovator of Mutadārik meter, whom the author of this article believes to be Ibn Hammād Jawharī. He innovated Mutadārik meter to explain his own metrical theory.

Abstract This study deals with the role of co-text in specifying the meaning of verbs and their derivatives. Of course, this process can be accounted for by investigating the context, the meaning of verbs and their derivatives, based on different semantic and lexical contextual clues. Context and co-text account for the meanings verb forms and their derived forms convey in Arabic language. These forms include past forms, present forms, imperatives and derived forms (subjects, objects, adjectives). So, it is clear that the meaning of verbs and their morphological derivatives result from their context not, as experts of Arabic language assume, from predetermined meanings which are almost fixed. The meaning of verbs is different from that of descriptive derivatives, the difference being due to dependence on co-textual clues used in the expressions. For example, sometimes past tense signifies future time, or present tense and imperatives may denote other than these meanings. The basis of all these adjustments and modifications is the co-textual clues which language carries with it.