Aesthetics of stylistic phenomena in the seven sublime poems of Ibn Abi Al-Hadid (The rhetorical level as an example)

Abstract

Stylistics is one of the modern critical approaches to analyzing various literary texts. It aims at both form and content in order to reveal the aesthetics of the text and find the linguistic and literary characteristics of the text. There are rich texts in Arabic literature, especially in committed literature, that require precise understanding and deepening of meanings. Among them are the seven sublime poems sung by the venerable poet Ibn Abi al-Hadid. He devoted his poems to contents such as mentioning the conquest of Khaybar, mentioning the conquest of Mecca, describing the Prophet (PBUH), the fall of a camel, Description of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him). This study performs a stylistic analysis of these poems by studying the rhetorical level. Since this topic is not discussed in any research, this study aims to reveal the rhetorical aesthetics of the aforementioned poems. This research uses the descriptive-analytical method. One of the results reached by this study after describing the features of Ibn Abi Al-Hadid’s language and his idea is that his poetry has a unique, precise texture. His great ability to express what was on his conscience became completely clear to us, and he also paid great attention to using rhetorical aesthetics, especially the eloquent simile, to express religious and historical contents.