الخطاب الحجابي في اخبار ابي تمام لابي بكر الصولي ت/ 335هـ
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2017-02-16
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The Arabic critical heritage has witnessed a huge and varied accumulation of critical
approaches and procedures ever since it moved from its narrow verbal limits towards a broader
space of written-oriented approach, which competed with different types of reading, paving the way
for a critical discourse to take hold parallel to the literary discourse at the time. Our Arabic heritage
remains deplete with different texts that are suitable for theoretical approaches, thanks to the modern
tools and techniques offered by modern linguistic studies, which can shed light on an angle in the
heritage texts, and in that way it opens up the possibility for a contemporary understanding of its
nature and the specificity of its affiliation.
In order to take care of that heritage and to celebrate traditional criticism of the texts, this
study is keen to explore a linear manifestation of that great corpus, that is by investigating a book
which rewritten the heritage accompanied by a relationship of a special kind different from what was
prevalent. That book is The Chronicles of Abi Tamam authored by Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya
al-Suli, whose goal was double: One is explicit and open; while the other is implicit and concealed in
terms of the chronicles written in his defense of Abu Tammam. The defense took the form of
argumentation in its linguistic components, starting points, mechanisms and logical sequence, and the
chronicle contents that contributed to luring readers to his cause in order to seduce them, and then
convince them, which are the subject matter to be cleared out by this study.
The study has been divided into Preface and three Chapters. The Preface reviewed the
author's biography in some detail along with a list of his works. It then engaged to introduce the
concept of argumentation in terms of language and terminology as well as its historical status in
Western and Arab studies, both now and then. As for Chapter One, it has been divided into three
sections in which the study reviewed the argumentative grounds in the discourse of al-Suli, his
motives, characteristics and arguments, as well as the literary genre attached to his discourse and the
role of the recipient. After that came Chapter Two to address in some detail the strategies of the
discourse of al-Suli’s argumentation which contained (Argument by Opening, Argumentative Split,
Argument by Ethos, Argument by Mockery and Insulting, Argument by power, Argumentative Prove). I
devoted Chapter Three to investigate the mechanisms of argumentative discourse, including the
mechanisms of language and rhetoric and that of syllogism.
Lastly the conclusion sums up the findings reached by the study in offer. The critical
controversy revolving around Abu Tammam and his poetry attracted Abu Bakr al-Suli who took
argumentative approach in his unique reading of Abu Tammam- a reading that has later become
known as the Doctrine of Abu Tammam.
Not only this, al-Suli’s The Chronicles of Abu Tammam employed a series of techniques in
his scholarship such as practical critical treatment, dialogue based on references-based dialogue that
have argumentative authority, cultural norms, knowledge sources- techniques that he invoked all for
his defense of Abu Tammam. That is all he wanted to accomplish in his book which was replete with
arguments.
Furthermore, in his argumentative discourse, al-Suli reviewed the texts of his opponents that
he reported in full, revealing their weakness, vulnerability and the authors’ intentions. That afforded
him the opportunity to employ argumentation to refute his opponents’ claims. He also used prayer
technique for argumentation. Added to that was derived from the sources of historical literature,
avoiding the individual analogy, generalization-based judgments, taking into account his opponents,
drawing from opponents’ positions some routes of argumentation, conferring a degree of
reasonableness and acceptability. All that in turn helped make his discourse closer to persuasion