Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bashiri; Alireza Kaveh Nooshabadi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 1-22
Abstract
One of the important books written about contemporary area of Arabic poetry is “Semantic & Artistic Aspects of Contemporary Arabic Poetry” by Azlodin Esmaeili, the famous critic of Arabic literature. This book was published in 1391 and translated by Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi, and was titled ...
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One of the important books written about contemporary area of Arabic poetry is “Semantic & Artistic Aspects of Contemporary Arabic Poetry” by Azlodin Esmaeili, the famous critic of Arabic literature. This book was published in 1391 and translated by Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi, and was titled artistic and semantic aspects of contemporary Arabic poem of Taraneh Mashhad publications. One of the most important relationship bridges among languages, cultures, and literature of various countries is the translation. This study, investigating the relationship between substation and companionship that a famous linguist Saussurehas talked about, investigated the present translation. The present study has engaged in problems from the view of descriptive-interpretive method, by emphasizing the product-oriented (descriptive) translation studies. He has analyzed them, has presented the suggested translation. In general, it can be said that in spite of the efforts and a lot of translating problems in transferring contents from the source language into the target language, the translation of the mentioned book has confronted many difficulties that can be resulted from the loss of exact understanding or enough accuracy between the source language and the target language, and idioms have beneficial usages in the area of words and idioms in these languages.
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Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bayanlou
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 23-44
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Preparing an academic course is an urgent need which makes university instructors write books and textbooks. Ali Salimiś book "Criticism and Critics in Arabic Literature", deals with Criticism in Arabic Literature. It is a pedagogical text containing: a table of contents, a preface, and three chapters ...
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Preparing an academic course is an urgent need which makes university instructors write books and textbooks. Ali Salimiś book "Criticism and Critics in Arabic Literature", deals with Criticism in Arabic Literature. It is a pedagogical text containing: a table of contents, a preface, and three chapters (on the development of criticism, literary elements, and renowned critics).The stated purpose of the writer is to have an overview of literary criticism and its development in the classical and modern Arabic literature. After a careful analytic study, the following qualities are enumerated as the advantages in the format of book: covering, binding, lettering, pagination, titling, and paragraph writing. The related flaws include simple covering design, typing mistakes, poor grammar, spelling mistakes, and poor eloquence. In terms of content, the advantages are good table of contents, impartiality, accordance with Islamic principles, and the sciences curriculum. The negative points in content are inconsistency between the titles, poor referencing, ambiguity in academic accordance, mismatch between title, content, and course objectives, and poor terminology. All in all, it is worth mentioning that the book is qualitatively poor, and this article aims to offer points in settling the flaws. Observing these suggestions can make the book fit for educational purposes.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Es’haagh Rahmaani; Esma’il Ashraf
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 45-57
Abstract
Constructive criticism has asignificant impact on the scientific development which leads to the flourishment of the country’s whole wealth, i.e. its technology. As the emergence, revolution, and maturity of the Arabic language can be regarded as the problems which demand a particular heed, the ...
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Constructive criticism has asignificant impact on the scientific development which leads to the flourishment of the country’s whole wealth, i.e. its technology. As the emergence, revolution, and maturity of the Arabic language can be regarded as the problems which demand a particular heed, the research therein also seems very valuable. In this paper, the book “A’taTawor A’naHwi Le’loghate Al’Arabiy” written by Bergeshter Eser(1994) and researched and translated by Ramazaan AbdA’ta’waab has been put into criticism. Besides mentioning other semiotic languages such as Hebrew, Akkadian, Aramaic, and Habashi, this book has studied the Arabic syntax from the historical and linguistic viewpoints. Through the quantitative and qualitative analyses, it was understood that the book seeks two major objectives: first, studying the Arabic syntax from the historical viewpoint, that is, in terms of emergence, major letters, types of the sentence, the basic [of the language], and the changes applied to it over time; second, studying it structurally, which occurs in the linguistic scope. On the whole, this book has paved the way for the development of the Arabic syntax. In addition, it could reasonably be suggested that this book be included into the curriculum of Arabic language and literature at the PhD level for the course of Research into Arabic Word Formation and Syntax especially in Iran’s universities.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Mohammadi Rahimi Khoigan; Mohammad Khaqani Isfahani
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 59-73
Abstract
Critical analysis of written several books on various subjects and fields is an important and necessary rule of the critics. One of the most important areas of research is rhetoric that is still considered by many researchers. It is one of the updated and significant areas of research which attracts ...
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Critical analysis of written several books on various subjects and fields is an important and necessary rule of the critics. One of the most important areas of research is rhetoric that is still considered by many researchers. It is one of the updated and significant areas of research which attracts the attention of many researchers, so it should be reviewed academically and orderly research and books that should be reviewed properly. Accordingly, a critical review of the book "Philosophy of Rhetoric" by Raja Eid the full Professor of the University Banha, Egypt, as the main issue of this study is selected. The important findings of this research, which are based on interpretive-critical view, show that the respected author has tried to criticize the old rhetoric and look at them with a new look, but it does not seem that much of this work has been successful in considering logical classifications, philosophical and discursive discussions.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Seyyed Ali Seraj
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 75-96
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Myths are formed based on human nature and the mind, and the language of the current period is fluid. So, myths have been considered as the integral part of literature. Whenever the poets and writers see the wishes of the people in danger, they turned to myth. One of the most transformative ...
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Myths are formed based on human nature and the mind, and the language of the current period is fluid. So, myths have been considered as the integral part of literature. Whenever the poets and writers see the wishes of the people in danger, they turned to myth. One of the most transformative periods in contemporary literary Persian and Arabic literature, can be influenced by factors such as political developments, arrogance, the pressure of internal despotic poets imbued with idealism. In this study, the effects of myth in a poem by Khalil Alhavi (1919- 1982) and M. Atashi (1310- 1384) were explored based on analytic approach which is in accordance with the myth functions as a means of awakening people to select the most motivated poets mentioned in this research.
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Arabic Language and Literature
Mohsen Seifi; Mahvash Hassanpoor
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 97-112
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The book "A Selection of Masterpieces of Arabic Literature in the First Abbasid Period " written by Mirloohiis one of the works that the writer has selected, and the examples of prose and poetry of the first Abbasid era have been translated and analyzed. The study of the book shows that this work, while ...
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The book "A Selection of Masterpieces of Arabic Literature in the First Abbasid Period " written by Mirloohiis one of the works that the writer has selected, and the examples of prose and poetry of the first Abbasid era have been translated and analyzed. The study of the book shows that this work, while having concessions, is free of defects. This essay aims to observe the principles of critique, using a descriptive-analytic method to determine the extent of adherence of the author to the standards and rules of writing the critiques. A careful review of the book suggests that this work has some shortcomings in content and form. Some of the most fundamental of which are as follows: addressing unnecessary topics such as the poet's biography and neglecting some of the essential topics, such as the Abbasid era poetry. There are many typographical errors found in the book that could give the beginners inaccurate information and even mislead the readers.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Payman Salehi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 113-136
Abstract
Considering that contemporary prose texts, in addition to the educational aspect, more than any time, reflects the culture and beliefs of a community and influences them; a book that is introduced as the reference for the curriculum, in addition to proper structure and content, should be in line with ...
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Considering that contemporary prose texts, in addition to the educational aspect, more than any time, reflects the culture and beliefs of a community and influences them; a book that is introduced as the reference for the curriculum, in addition to proper structure and content, should be in line with the latest literary theories and approaches, so it could fulfill its literary mission. For this reason, this research, using the method of rereading the work in both quantitative and qualitative analyses, has tried to see whether the book entitled ‘Malameh Al-Nathr Al-Hadith & Fonouneh’ by Omar Daqaq, Mohammad NajibTalawy, and MoradAb-AlrahmanMabrouk has enough potential to be used as a reference for the curriculum of Arabic language and literature. The results show that, in spite of its advantages, such as a completely legible font, ideal layout and technical performance of some authors of this book, it has many quantitative and qualitative disadvantages that if it is used as a reference for the curriculum, it would be very weak and incomplete. Some of the quantitative disadvantages of the book are very little use of punctuation marks and not having index, no list of references and the bibliography of the history of literature at the end of the book. Besides, some of the qualitative disadvantages of the book are not being reprinted after 18 years, thematic and content deficiencies of the titles, irregularity and incoherence of the text, inadequate citation, lack of up-to-date and valid resources and also defective presentation of the titles and wrong inference.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Moosa Arabi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 137-151
Abstract
After emergence of Islam, by its miraculous style of expression, holy Quran attracted Muslims’ attention to rhetoric and aesthetics; this literati and critics fascination to miraculous style led them to move through regularization of rhetoric and aesthetics; in the meantime, by the advances in ...
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After emergence of Islam, by its miraculous style of expression, holy Quran attracted Muslims’ attention to rhetoric and aesthetics; this literati and critics fascination to miraculous style led them to move through regularization of rhetoric and aesthetics; in the meantime, by the advances in criticism and emergence of literary movements, there were some reactions to traditional approaches to rhetoric, showing themselves in names such as Osloobie.With regard to the new stylistics, numerous compilations were written by the critics, and in this study, the aim is to analyze one of this works, that is Osloobia albayanol arabi men ofogh alghavaedolmeyaria Elaafagh E-nnaselebdaee by Rahman Gharkan.This work was analyzed based on the content analysis method and the most significant results are mentioned in the part about pros and cons of the book. The most significant pros and cons include, a detailed boundary between old rhetoric and new rhetoric, which, by a practical part called “gheraatvanass” has led the author to succeed more in comparison to similar works The appropriateness of the title to the content is obvious in all chapters and two keywords “elghavaedolmeyariaelaafagh e-nnaselebdaee” has been analyzed in all chapters using evidences and references. A civilized and dynamic look to language as a live body in which rhetoric issues as well as modern literature have been used with a new perspective; presenting comprehensive analysis by the author at the end of each chapter which leads the reader to have a clear understanding about Osloobiaalbayanolarabi, logical discipline and order of book discussions are among the strengths of the book. Some editing and writing mistakes, compaction of book discussion and lack of exercises and tests, not having concordances, verses and poems, not evaluating and criticizing the view of western scholars are among the weak points.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Sadq Askari
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 153-174
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Critical review of scientific production reveals the weaknesses of the works of the previous works, so we can avoid the shortcomings and strengthen our works.. Therefore, it can be said that achieving the optimum perfection in the development of academic resources is possible only after reviews. The ...
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Critical review of scientific production reveals the weaknesses of the works of the previous works, so we can avoid the shortcomings and strengthen our works.. Therefore, it can be said that achieving the optimum perfection in the development of academic resources is possible only after reviews. The present paper aims to review the book entitled "Egyptian Literature from the Establishment of the Ayyubi State to the Advent of the French Campaign ",written by Abdul Latif Hamza, and published in 2000 by the publication "Egyptian General Institute Forum for the Books" in 293 pages.The results of the critique and review of this book show that this book, despite some strengths such as observance of the rules of writing, the coherence and logical setting of the sections and chapters; unfortunately, it has many defects in the field of form and content. The most important drawbacks of this work include lack of registration of bibliography references and shortages, lack of introduction and closure for the sections and chapters, verbal errors due to non-observance of rules, lexical errors due to non-observance of the rules of conduct, interpretive errors and misunderstandings due to the inappropriate use of words and combinations. But the main drawbacks of the content in this book are repetition of the subject, surreptitious review due to the wide scope of the subject, reliance on compilation and accumulation as a result of the lack of analysis and innovation. It is hoped that the results of this brief review would be useful for the writer and other scholars, and would Lead to scientific promotion.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Yahya Ataei
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 175-193
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The author of this article tried to examine the status and value of the book entitled “The Arab and Iranian Rhetoric Knowledge” among other similar books, and to review the assessment and critical evaluation of it with respect to the formal and content structure, among Iranian Islamic rhetoric ...
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The author of this article tried to examine the status and value of the book entitled “The Arab and Iranian Rhetoric Knowledge” among other similar books, and to review the assessment and critical evaluation of it with respect to the formal and content structure, among Iranian Islamic rhetoric and research. The author in a couple of segments investigated the effect of formal structure and content in details. In a book review, the apparent effect of printing and quality including letters, layout and cover design, binding, and the value of observing the ritual writing and editing is taken into consideration. Considered in the evaluation of the content, materials such as preliminary discussion of the plan, the purpose of the author, summary and conclusions, comprehensiveness and relevance of content by subject, the type of content, the coherence of the whole work, updated resources and references the author's objectivity in analysis and content are presented.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Seyed Esmaeil Ghasemi Mousavi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 195-215
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The text linguistics is one of that fields that has had a great impact on Translation Studies. In many definitions, translation has been defined as the replacement of a text in one language by a text in the target language, and a lot of researchers tried to use theories of text linguistics in translational ...
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The text linguistics is one of that fields that has had a great impact on Translation Studies. In many definitions, translation has been defined as the replacement of a text in one language by a text in the target language, and a lot of researchers tried to use theories of text linguistics in translational investigation. Accordingly, Yousof Noor Ewath tried in a communicative perspective to provide a short history of text linguistics and translation studies in his book "Elmonnas wa Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah" (The Text Linguistics and Translation Theory) and to explain the relationship between these two fields. So at the end of both book's two chapters, he has raised his theory of these fields and named it: (Nazariyat Al-Enziyahat) the shifts of theory. He recognizes three types of meaning in texts as Obligatory Meaning, Extended Meaning and Accessory Meaning, and based on the quantity of these different meanings in texts, it is divided into three types: Literary texts, non-literary text, and Fuzzy texts or Hybrid texts. In his opinion, with regard to this division and differences between each of these types, an appropriate translational strategy should be chosen.This paper with a descriptive-analytic method tries to review this book and to analyze its appearance and content and to assess the degree of realization of book's goals That are, to write a text linguistic approached introduction to translation studies and also tried to study the compatibility of this work contents with Arabic language and literature field. The most important result of current study is as follows two reasons caused this book not to be a comprehensive introduction to the text linguistics and translation studies: first the book was published long time ago, and secondly, the book has not mentioned all the main tendencies of the two fields and lacks all the necessary topics related to curriculum which prevents this book from being considered as the main source of translation theory courses, but paying attention to the new ideas and a strong theoretical framework can present the innovative research ideas and new thinking way about the translation process.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Issa Motaghizadeh
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 217-233
Abstract
University course books have a determining role in the teaching/learning process. A desirable course book has certain characteristics which differentiates it from a non-academic book. Reviewing and evaluating the content of the course book can lead to a better precision and accuracy in its design and ...
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University course books have a determining role in the teaching/learning process. A desirable course book has certain characteristics which differentiates it from a non-academic book. Reviewing and evaluating the content of the course book can lead to a better precision and accuracy in its design and organization. Using library research methodology in this study, an attempt has been made to obtain a framework which represents university course book characteristics. Our goal in this study was that by analyzing course book content we can also evaluate and review the definition and terminology of course book analysis, its application, dimensions, the related comments and interpretations. The book “Arabic Grammar and Reading” by Dr. Mohammad Reza Najjarian has been chosen as the case study, so we can check how well the book has benefited from the characteristics obtained. Course book is one of the most important and influential instructional medium which is very significant in the realm of education. Analyzing the content of course book can provide a better chance for the authors, course and curriculum planners and instructors to find the strengths and possible weaknesses of the books and also make revisions, and the possible changes to the content the books based on a desirable goal and academic principles can be helpful.
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Arabic Language and Literature
Azade Montazeri
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 235-253
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Along with the growth and advancement of human sciences and knowledge in the Western countries and their followers, new critical approaches have manifested in Arabic culture by various cultural exchanges, and it encourages Arabic critics to take advantage of the latest global critical results. Western ...
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Along with the growth and advancement of human sciences and knowledge in the Western countries and their followers, new critical approaches have manifested in Arabic culture by various cultural exchanges, and it encourages Arabic critics to take advantage of the latest global critical results. Western criticism has always been gravitated by many adherents who completely ignore their original legacy, but some such as Salah Fazl, an Egyptian well-known researcher and critic, has tried to introduce the results of critical studies and to apply them in all parts of Arabic communities using intellectual and reasonable attitude, and he has scrutinized the old and new Arabic criticism efforts very carefully. In this regard, this paper has explored and studied the book “Minhaj Al-Naghd Al-Moaser” written by Salah Fazl using quantitative and qualitative approaches, and it has evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the content and form of the mentioned work as well. The results of this study have revealed that the mentioned book has not been written in an academic way due to the lack of references and citations, but it has been written in a way that the author calls it “Oral writing”, and the author of this book is influenced by the writing method used by Taha Hossein and Mohammad Mandoor. Therefore, the author has made impressive strides towards the simple andaccurate understanding of the critical content of this book by its addresses.
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Arabic Language and Literature
Reza Nazemian
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 255-271
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The critique of the book can be considered as an extension of the writer's efforts in providing research results. Critique is the essence of the research, and this article seeks to review the book "The Seasons of the Transfiguration and Al-Tarib", written by and Egyptian writer and interpreter, Mohammed ...
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The critique of the book can be considered as an extension of the writer's efforts in providing research results. Critique is the essence of the research, and this article seeks to review the book "The Seasons of the Transfiguration and Al-Tarib", written by and Egyptian writer and interpreter, Mohammed al-Batal. The book consists of eight chapters that deal with various subjects in the field of translation from Arabic to English and vice versa, and although all of these chapters, are the subject of an article, they are scattered. They are also dedicated to specialty in translation. The area where the author pays more attention to is the field of terminology, which is a large part of the book, and even a chapter of the book forms a small culture of press terminology. Considering that books on translation theory have a relatively long history and even a few books have been published in Arabic, the book "The Fosoolfi al-tarjomah va al- tarib" was expected from Mohammad al-Batal which was published in 2007 to deepen the field of translational studies, but a glance at the book's list of sources suggests that the author has an extensive research effort. He has not done much about translation technology and has written more practical experiences.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Ebrahim Namdari
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 273-289
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In the field of observing the standards of scientific papers, researchers take into account principles, rules, and specific criteria which depend on their skills, experience, and great carefulness. The present study aims to review the structure of six articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature ...
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In the field of observing the standards of scientific papers, researchers take into account principles, rules, and specific criteria which depend on their skills, experience, and great carefulness. The present study aims to review the structure of six articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature at Tehran University in the field of literature middle age, and their compliance with the standards of scientific papers. Research Standards related to the structure of scientific papers in these six articles suggest that some articles have drawbacks, such as having too general titles, lack of objective research methods in the abstract, weakness in key words, the lack of basic questions, lack of mentioning the literature and stereotypes of result.
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Arabic Language and Literature
Yusuf Nazari
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, Pages 291-307
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The book “Fi al-nass al-adabi: Dirasah uslubiyah ihsaiyah” written by Dr Saad Moslouh and published in 1993, is one of the foremost and significant works in the area of Arabic studies, dealing with statistical stylistics. In the current study, the book was analyzed in terms of form and content. ...
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The book “Fi al-nass al-adabi: Dirasah uslubiyah ihsaiyah” written by Dr Saad Moslouh and published in 1993, is one of the foremost and significant works in the area of Arabic studies, dealing with statistical stylistics. In the current study, the book was analyzed in terms of form and content. The focus of formal analysis revolved around cover artwork, typography, page layout, and typing errors. The content analysis, on the other hand, incorporated eloquence of expressions, order of the issues, resources, referencing, innovations and analyses and reviews of them. The results of the analyses indicated that since this work has been published almost 20 years ago, it has several deficits in terms of formal features particularly typography and referencing. It should be noted that, in terms of content, despite the novelty of the concepts in the area of Arabic studies, the underlying theoretical issues of the book are mainly adapted from western experts. Thus, it should be considered that the main innovation of the book is adapting the Western concepts and implementation of the related models and patterns in Arabic texts and literature.
