Arabic Rhetoric Embellishments

Course Main Objective

To make students acquainted with the concept of Al-Badi’ (Rhetoric) science, its types, issues; a theoretical study enables students to trace its rhetoric secrets in examples from the munificent Quran and the Prophetic Hadith (tradition), rhetoric texts: poetic and prosaic which make them able to employ arts of rhetoric science in writing literary texts.

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Explain the concept of Al-Badi’ (rhetoric) science, reasons of origin of Bad’iyyat (poems praising the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and its different arts.
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Analyze the arts of semantic and literal embellishments in rhetoric texts to unveil their aesthetics. 
•    2.2 Use communication technology in performing the assignments and analyzing texts rhetorically and communicate via the available electronic means. 
• 3. Values 
•   3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships upon performing rhetoric assignments.
•   3.2 Observe scientific integrity and ethics as a responsible citizen upon taking the course exams and rhetoric assignments.

Course Content

1. An introduction to the course and its requirements.
2. An introduction to the concept of Al-Badi' (rhetoric) science and its origin and development, reasons beyond appearance of Bad'iyyat (poems praising the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the common use of the said science in the successive periods, review examples from approved and disapprove rhetoric and the rhetorical and nonrhetorical of using embellishments through studying Bad'iat Safi al-Din al-Hilli.
3. Definition of the tropes and their rhetoric secrets.
4. Al-Tibaq (antithesis) with its types, al-Moqabala (parallelism), al-Irsad (observation), along with analyzing (10 verses from Abo Tammam's poem Fath Amoriya (Conquest of Amoriya), verses from Surat "Muhammad") which demonstrates rhetoric and aesthetics of such embellishments.
5. The congeries (considering the counteractive) and what is attached thereto along with analyzing an article written by Al-Zaiyat which demonstrates purposes of congeries and contradiction in Arabic rhetoric such as: (Fenoun wa Genoun "arts and madness", To the Village Mr. Bey", Al-Azah reform between its proponents and opponents).
6. Metabole and shift, paronomasia, hypallage.
7. Characteristics of accepted hyperbole, abstractness, epanodos through rhetoric texts.
8. Banter that is serious and sarcasm, asterism and its contrary, conceit, digression, subdividing through analyzing (Al-Zayat's article) which demonstrates embellishments and their aesthetics.
9. Definition of the literal embellishments, their types and usages: alliteration, assonance, head-tail and its positions in the text through analyzing Al-Hamazani's "Maqama Nisabouriya".
- Employing the embellishments in writing a literary text and analyzing rhetoric texts from the munificent Quran and the Prophetic Hadith (tradition), ancient and modern literature including poetry and prose (Quranic Surat, Khotbat Al-Wadaa "farewell sermon" and analyzing rhetoric texts to demonstrate the semantic and literal embellishments and their aesthetics.

Textbook (s) 

Fuod, Basuoni. A. Embellishments: A Historical and Artistic Study of Rhetoric Fundamentals and Matters of Al-Badi’. Al-Mokhtar for publishing, Cairo, 4th ed. 1440H.

Course ID: ARAB 212