Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. By Geert Jan van Gelder. Arabische Studien, vol. 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. xv + 399. €78.

to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

â â  this study, which is done in the light of modern research, is a small step in exploring the great heritage of arabic rhetoric. it may be quite appropriate to explore rhetorical techniques in the work of 'abd al- qähä«r al-jurjänä«, particularly because he has been neglected in many pieces of research on rhetoric. this article is an attempt for describing 'abd al- qähä«r’s ap...

pessimism, a phenomenon of deep effect over the contemporary poetry, both arabic and persian, usually enjoys a widespread usage in the periods of social, political and economic disorders which, in turn, affect the poets’ views and change their visions toward the real. elias abu-shabaka and hushang ebtehaj are the poets of a modern disorderly era and environment. they both display a deep pessimi...

intertextuality is a theory that by its entrance to the field of literary criticism caused excellent change in this field. according to this theory each composition, consciously or unconsciously is a birth and rereading of previous or contemporary composition. according to this theory, we saw many arabic texts that each of them in any kind or shape is in relation with classic arabic texts and –...

the present article studies the vocabulary relating to victory in palestinian contemporary poets poetry in al – asf al – makoul. the present paper attempts to compare the type and the structure of these vocabularies which contain the concept of victory and triumph in quran and ancient poetries. in fact these lexicons divide into two parts: first the old words such as victory, triumph and so on ...

it is obvious that literature means prose and poetry and makes no difference either by arabs or non – arabs. but symbolism in the arabic concept has emerged since the emergence of the dark era’s literature and is loaned from the specific characteristics of dark era’s lives and is based on two elements: brevity and indirect speech. since the symbolism has emerged like a literary school generally...

the subject of love has been a source of inspiration for poets and men of letters as well as a basic element for many literary works in the world and especially in the oriental literary works. arabic poets have also placed the subject of love as the progenitor of the seminal and enduring works and have presented different interpretations of it depending on their personality, their life experien...

complaint poetry is a natural expression of human grief, pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment arising from life’s different problems. complaint poetry regarded as a kind of lyric poem in which the speaker faces the cruelty of a faithless lover or the advent of some misfortune like poverty, exile, injustice, in which the poet laments or protests or tells of those miseries. the complaint poetry c...