Alliteration in The Liberation of Behavior in the Management of the Kings

Abstract

peace be upon the prophet Muhammad and his good and pure family. This research deals with the alliteration in “The Liberation of Behavior in the Management of the Kings” by Abi Fadl Muhammad Ibn al-A'raj (925 AH). It is one of the Royal Arts books, known in Arabic literature as “Mirrors of Princes” or “Literature of Maria.” It deals with the artistic and rhetorical employment of the literary works of the owners of power and their method of writings. Despite their missionary preaching and guiding nature full of aesthetic values, their writings came to celebrate rhetoric and arts. In the course of the book “Editing the Behavior in the Management of Kings” Ibn al-A'raj mobilizes different rhetorical styles if not veils in some of them. In order to achieve literary literature and accomplish its rhythmic music, this research is specialized in the study of the art of antiquity. The aim of this research is to show the literary statements of the book of the Royal Arts through the studied model, followed by the analytical technical approach that based on the Arabic rhetoric.