CONTEMAPORAY LITERATURE STUDIES (LITERARY CULTURE QUARTERLY)
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:5|Papers Count:11

Drama is an obvious cultural activity. This literary form is a means of solidarity between human beings and opens new horizons for dialogue among races, ethnicities and different colors in spite of different point of views, opinions and beliefs. Drama is proper for applying national themes and calling for freedom, rising against oppression and resistance.The present article surveys the works of one of the prominent pioneers of this literary form, Suleiman Al-Hozami from Kuwait, some of whose works are translated into English, Spanish and Persian.

One of the most important stages in the development of nations’ literature and language is the stage of systemization. No nation could step into this stage unless its literature and language has matured. Many scholars and literary men with different scientific status have mentioned this fact in their works. One of these scholars is Abdullah Ibn Muttaz. In the introduction to his book named “Kitab Al-Badii”, he states: “no one has collected the new and wonderful figures of speech before me and no writer has taken the lead to write down on this subject”. His work has elements of innovation and modernity.

Ahmad Shoghi known as Amir Al-Shoara, is one of the most famous contemporary poets of Arabic literature. His poetry never served himself or his personal life but was all the time for the sake of others. He never ignored the poetic motives; on the contrary, he studied them very deeply, although he was not a poet with a worldwide reputation, Shoghi was one of the famous poets of East and one of the greatest founders of the movement that promoted Arabic poetry magnificently. The present article studies some of his poems with social, ethical and wise themes.

Speakers of different languages have paid attention to the phonetics of their language since ancient times. Muslim scientists have also taken into consideration the value of phonological studies and among them there are linguists who are not less important than any western ones like Saussure, Chomsky and Jacobson. Some of them are even counted more major than westerners; one of these Muslim scholars is Sibeveyh.He is considered a forerunner of Arabic phonological studies and his works are the basis of later studies in this field. The present article surveys his point of views and analyses.

There is no doubt that Mowlana is one of the greatest scholars of the Islamic world and the most important concept of his intellectual structure is Love. Love in his opinion is the pillar of contemplation and cannot be described in words. The more he states about love the more light he sheds on it. The objective manifestation of love for him is Shams Tabrizi. He was the one who changed Mowlana from death to life, from tears into laughter.

Classicism is the first literary school that emerged in Europe after the great scientific movement in the 16th century A.D. and tried to revive the old literature of Greece and Latin considering the technical and humanistic themes in that era. Literary societies like Divan and Apolo in the east and the society of writers and Andolosian group in the west in opposition to the classicism of Baroodi, Shoughi, Manfalooti, and others to make literature and poetry independent, and relying on the internal coherence, experience, poetic image and nature centered. Such views revolved the mentalities towards poetry and literature greatly that the emergence of literary schools like romanticism, symbolism, realism and the emergence of new poetry in all its types were of its results.

Repetition figure of speech is one of the aesthetic and technical aspects of the Holy Quran. There are stories of Quran which are repeated in other Surahs. The Story of Moses & Pharaoh is one of the most frequent ones. This repetition occurs weather through bringing examples from the story which are in accordance with the situation or by quoting some parts of it. This repetition adds to the technical imagery of the Surah. The present article studies these repetitions.

Muhammad Al-MaQut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in Arab world. His literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary.Simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. This article attempts to study the language used by Al-MaQut in “Badvi Al-Ahmar”. The simplicity of the terminology applied by Al-MaQut and avoiding difficult vocabulary is a characteristic of his poetry. Repetition of the pronoun “I” is another characteristic of his poetic language. Also is using vocative cases and interrogative forms.

Allah the Exalted has stated in verse 5 of the Surah of Jonah: “It is He who made the sun radiance and the moon a light, and determined it by stations, that you might know the number of the years and the reckoning”. The Arab poet says: “just as our ancestors demised, we will too; and the time will undergo no change and will remain”. The present article studies the concept of time from different point of views. It considers the meaning of time, calendar, and number of days from the point of views of Iranian and Arabic scholars as well as in Quran and Arabic literature especially in dark ages, Abbasid contemporary era.

Oday Ibn Zeid Ebadi lived during the reign of Khosro Parviz and was a contemporary of Naaman. He had a controversial life. On one hand he was living in pleasure & drinking and on the other hand he was a poet, a literary man and a politician. He is known for philosophical poetry. He reached high status in two imperial courts but conspiracies of envious enemies finally caused him imprisonment by Naaman. This event has been mentioned in many books such as Al-Aqani, Mojam al-Adebaa val-Jomherah and al-Sher val-Shoara. Although Oday lived in dark ages he was an affectionate and kind poet.