CONTEMAPORAY LITERATURE STUDIES (LITERARY CULTURE QUARTERLY)
Year:2010 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:9

Devotedness and honesty of intentions are adornment of personality.The holy Religion of Islam has always encouraged human to wear this adornments as well as being ethical. The life of prophets and pious ones is full of attempts to be ethically upright and to be away from ingloriousness. The present article studies one of the ethical characteristics of Imam Ali (AS) and exemplifies him as a symbol of good manners and a role model for behavior. The article is based on some of his behavior in one of the wars against infidels. The original story is recited in Mathanvi by Mowlana. In the story by Mowlana Ali (AS) is depicted as a courageous fighter with no wrath and selfishness.

Elegy is one of the most distinct manifestations of Arabic and especially Islamic poetry. Since the time that human beings have begun their life on the planet and fear of death has settled in their heart, they have been familiar with elegy and they have composed everlasting odes in this regard. Using mournful and gloomy words, elegy-composers have composed the ghostliness of death brethren or friends. Moreover, sometimes on the loss of an elite or a knowledgeable one, elegies have been composed in which some kinds of didactic literature can be found.Raising Islam, all aspects of Arabic life changed and poem and elegy were not exceptions. Islam defined new standards for human life and death and made him to think about his destination and universes to believe in existence of an erudite creator and to have faith in Dooms Day.

A majority of books and writings translated from Persian literature include Persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. These books, as we know, are translated as pieces of advice and wisdom from Persian and are known as “book of advice”. This paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of Persian literature. Having studied historical and literary facts of the past, and referring to contemporary materials and resources, it is revealed that Persian people have played a significant role in Arab literature and enriched it using their knowledge and findings. Reasons for this claim are the genius and great authors in different fields of science in the Arab world, and that Arabic has been so spread out in Persian territories that it is widely used in poems as well as science. Persian language and literature, however, has been influenced to a great extent by Arabic.

The present article expresses a little about life and literature of Ibn Genni and explains the subject of accent variations in terms of meaning and structure. It is believed that Ibn Genni was born in 321 (AH) in Mousel. Some believe that his name has been derived from the word “Genayous” which means great and noble and his father was a slave from Bizans. Ibn Geni produced many works about such topics as conjugation, lexicon, reading, poetry and literature, grammar and etymology. Among his works Alkhasāes is the greatest book from which this paper has been taken. Ibn Genni has a lot of various inventions and innovations in Arabic science. One of these theories is the subject of accent variations and the effect of meaning and grammar on them.

There is no doubt that Bahar and Rasafi are the pioneers of innovation in Iran and Iraq. These two poets have similarities among which is having religious ideologies in youth which was reflected in their poetry.Their ideology has become subtilized as time has passed. They have both paid attention to new subjects such as women and their related issues. The traditional look on women never loses color in the poetry of Bahar while Rasafi does not tolerate the traditional view on women.Educating and respecting women is the most important point shared by these poets.

Poets of resistance in Lebanon on one hand truly depict the devastation and exhaustedness and on the other hand they courageously defend their dignity and evoke the uprising of people for resistance against devastation, while leading them on to defend their ideology. Therefore the importance of their poetry is in no way less than the weapons of the resistance groups. Their prophetic mission is to draw a roadmap for the future and revive hope in the hearts of the oppressed. The present article studies the poetic mission and social obligations of resistance poets and the discrepancy of double taking in the resistance literature.

Rain is one of the manifestations of the divine blessing for servants which plays a very important role in the life of this human being. Man has paid special attention to rain since he stepped on earth. Many poets have described rain, used it in their similes and composed poetry out of it. They have used rain as a symbol together with other symbols such as woman, praise, battleground and so many other beautiful symbols. The present article studies the reflection of rain in the books of Imru’ al-Qais and Abid ibn al-Abrass.

“Seyyed Qutb” is known as one of the most obliged poets of contemporary Egypt.He played a pioneering role in critics literature. His poetry belongs to romance poetic school.His structural style is based on the clarity in meaning, transparent phrases and smoothness.

The feminist literature has had very notable percussions in the 20th century in the light of freedom movements. The feminist literature entered Arabic literature in 70s and 80s and the Arabic movement called feminist criticism emerged. This term has always had a dubious status for modern women and thus some are for and some are against this.The disputed matter is whether women create the feminist literature or men as well? Does it have to rage against male literature? Is there really anything like male or female literature? What is the proper name for this.