the prayers of imam sajjad (as) have a special artistic style that contribute to a great body of our religious literature. therefore, it is essential to pay due attention to this aspect of the prayers also known as the prayer literature. in this paper, we try to analyze the imagery created through personification in the prayers of imam sajjad (as) with the aim of portraying emotion, movement an...

ashura tragic event and the martyrdom of imam hussein (as) are considered the greatest events in the history of islam after ghadir event because imam (as) held the great epic in ashura day and sacrificed himself and his family, near kin and his companions for the survival of islam. this human event had influence on poets’ souls as they made an attempt to compose lyrics about imam (as). some of ...

tendency to najwa (religious whispering) and praying to god has been present in human soul from the time immemorial. in other words, the background of human’s god-seeking tendencies has been confirmed through historical and archeological excavations. attachment to the infinite source of being and coming to the divine threshold is a process that can be possible through prayers and that's th...

the event of ashura is an incomparable epic in human history that remains imam hussain`s liberal -mindness and fight against cruelty. the character of imam hussain is higher than shiite religion and islam. in different ages shiite poets recite much arabic poetry in praise of imam hussain. sharif morteze who was an eminent jurisprudent was one of them and he devoted most of his poems to imam hus...

Compositionality is the principle that meaning of a complex expression governed by meanings its constituents and rules used to combine them. This study seeks be an attempt shed light on how parts constitute whole expression. The opines apply this in Arabic prayer Knowers Monologue Al-Imam Al-Sjjad (Peace upon him). adopts Leech Short's lexical categories (2007) as model for analysis. reveals fo...