JOURNAL OF THE IRANIAN ASSOCIATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Year:2010 | Volume:6 | Issue:16|Papers Count:8

The method of using prepositions along with verbs has caused debates, and the axis of these debates is whether verbs are always accompanied with their respective prepositions or can be recognized by other prepositions based on semantic considerations.The ultimate goal of these issues is to state rhetorical methods and rationales in the application of prepositions in Qur'an, demonstrate the degree of Qur'anic effect on Arabic appreciation, and to recognize more delicate methods and interpretation procedures, which lead to an understanding of the Qur'anic eloquence.Investigating meanings of Ela and a frequency count of this preposition in Qur'an bring to the conclusion that it occurred 702 times for the meaning "the end point" (original meaning), 10 times for "association" (with), 21 times for "possession" (for), 4 times for clarification, and 5 times for "limits" (at).A detailed search in the original meaning of a verse and its words, along with the preceding and following verses made it evident that no preposition has taken the place of another one, since it does not seem logical that once a preposition is assigned for a meaning, another one would carry over its meaning.We made extensive use of books related to different meanings of the preposition "Ela" in Qur'an, including the interpretive book "Al-Kashaf" by Zamakhshari (Died in 538 AH), Al-Tahriro va-Tanvir by Ibn-Ashoori (Died in 1393 AH), Al-Bahr-ul-Muhit by Abu-Hayan Andolosi (Died in 754 AH), and many others.For presenting delicacies and beauties of verses, we first collected varied opinions of interpreters, grammarians, and rhetoricians, and then added aesthetical effects to the study to present such delicacies more effectively.In this article, we suffice in discovering delicacies of the preposition Ela in Qur'anic verses, and target at recognizing various applications of Ela and replacing it with other prepositions to which it does not originally belong.

Unlike other Arab countries, literature in Kuwait enjoys less antiquity and has not taken into account especially women's poetry and literature. The current discussion while focusing briefly on books and essays written about Kuwaiti poetess Soad al-Sabah, it also tries to study and analyze some poems of this great poetess hence; and directly or indirectly talking about power and capability of al-Sabah in application of texts, religious indications and secrets, characters and historical events, and finally, unveiling poetess' success in applying these texts and artistic & appropriate technical and subjective inspiration toward readers. As al-Sabah is acquaintance with principles of poetry, she has played important role in the development of women's literature in this country and the present paper tries to analyze her poems in this arena.The importance of this discussion is with the fact that "Religious Intra-Text" is a new term in literature and culture and has not enjoyed much analysis and criticism, especially in Kuwaiti literature.

Palilology is one of the commonly used embellishments in poetry that aims to easily impart or convey intentions and views of poets. Critics focus on utilizing this rhetoric in their literary analyses to explore the ideas and attitudes of the author. Al-Motannbi, a brilliant and incomparable Arabic poet has not been the exception as he frequently benefited using this skill in his works.To further highlight Al-Motannabi's aesthetical creativity in poetry, the present paper tries to study palilology in his works by classifying its applications into three ways: 1- Repetitive use of letters to emphasize on meanings and to improve rhythm, 2-Repetitive use of words in one or multibeat and 3- Repetitive use of phrases and sentences in order to prepare readers to understand and experience the feelings of poet through establishing different impressions.

This article tries to introduce Ibrahim Nasrallah one of the prominent Palestinian novelists along with his pivotal works. Nasrallah's works which have been taken into consideration in the present research include "Birds of Caution", "Baby of Eraser", "Amene's Brides", "Only 2" and "The Watchman of Lost City". In his works, Nasrallah has used various anecdotal methods such as magical realism, muiti-anecdotai techniques; stream of consciousness by taking world's famous novelists such as Saramago and Kotedra as his role models. We selected five above works of Nasrallah for introduction and literary analysis. In the literature written about Palestine and its events seems to be the best contemporary Arabic literary works. The method in this research is brief sign to themes of these novels then surveys the aesthetics sides and technical power point of this works.

Education is an accurate, professional, and sophisticated activity. The ultimate goal of education is to create deep and sustained learning. Learning is an important factor in successful and effective education, and is divided into three levels: knowledge, comprehension, and application. Each of these levels, based on its nature, needs certain educational strategies and techniques including general, corresponding (or transitive), and weighing. General strategies and techniques provide practice and feedback while corresponding and weighing strategies improve learning. An appropriate strategy and technique based on the content and level of learning allows the learner to achieve the desired learning goal. Otherwise, the process and the result of education would not be desirable and useful. Consider the three levels of learning and using proper educational strategies and techniques the content of Arabic grammar course may improve.

Since the early days of revelation of the Holy Qur'an, the opponents of this revealed book embarked on confronting it and sought to harm its reputation under various pretexts. Such pretexts and excuses have also been particularly pursued in recent centuries by Orientalists. The claim alleging the existence of mistakes in syntactic structures used in some verses of the Holy Qur'an is one example. However, after precise syntactic surveys, there will remain no doubt about the accuracy of such syntactic structures.In the present study, some verses are singled out and authors try to provide necessary and sufficient responses and explanations.

The prosperity and value of metrical pattern of Mathnavi (Couplet) in Persian literature is as much as its failure in Arabic literature. In this paper, the author concludes that difference in the two fundamental elements in Persian and Arabic poetry, i.e. Rhythm and Rhyme, provides the reasons of prosperity of Mathnavi pattern in Persian and its failure in Arabic literature, besides, minor elements such as Radif (identical ending syllable) leaves truly impression on this issue. It is to be noted that the paper mostiy deals with formal issues of Mathnavi patterns.Since this article is studied in the field of comparative literature, the "comparati ve method" has been used.

The Iraqi occupation by the US and UK-led forces in March 2003 is considered to be an important contemporary event. This occupation brought about major political, social and economic transition on this piece of land. Undoubtedly, literature of this period could be a real mirror of destruction and bloody massacre by the occupying forces.Iraqi poets attempt to portray the true and brutal face of invaders and their attempt to exploit oil sources in the name of bringing democracy and freedom for the Iraqi nation.To show their motives, poets use specific expressions including symbol and icons hence' using wolves and pigs symbolize bloodshed and insurrection. They also try to use repugnant and detestable characters like Holako, Abrahe and Abu Ragal for crystallizing usurpers and their manipulations in Iraq.This article tries to discuses and highlight dramatic transition in Iraq during its occupation (2003 -2009).