Al-Ata'iyyah Advices (Al-Hikam Al-Ata'iyyah)  a stylistic study

AlFaky, Anas

doi:10.21608/mjoms.2022.216111

Al-Ata'iyyah Advices (Al-Hikam Al-Ata'iyyah) a stylistic study

Author

Anas AlFaky

Professor in Arabic Department, Misr University for Science and Technology

10.21608/mjoms.2022.216111

Abstract

This research deals with the stylistic features that characterize Al-Ata'iyyah Advices (Al-Hikam Al-Ata'iyyah) at all levels, including phonology, vocabulary, syntax, and imagery. It links all of this to the intellectual contents that embody the Sufi vision of its author. In the preface, the research introduces and identifies the author and the book, then reviews the correlation between the advices (Al-Hikam). Then it begins with the stylistic study through which it arrives at a set of important conclusions, the chief among of which are:
Al-Ata'iyyah Advices (Al-Hikam Al-Ata'iyyah) are characterized by some phonological and syntactical characteristics that led to their popularity and spread. This includes their avoidance of verbal and semantic complexity, diversity of style between constatives and performatives, diversity of beginnings to break the pattern and avoid monotony, accuracy of division to clarify the idea, as well as comparisons and contrasts. They are also influenced by the style of the Noble Qur’an, the Noble Hadith, and the sayings of the Sufi Sheikhs of Ibn 'Ata'illah.
The imagery in Al-Ata'iyyah Advices (Al-Hikam Ata'iyyah) contributed noticeably in completing its rhetorical image, as it added unique semantic dimensions, such as transferring the abstract mystical meanings to the perceptual meanings, close to people.

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