mohammadreza mirzania

Halliday's systemic functional theory is a social look at a language which is interwoven with three metafunctional processes. Studying literary texts from linguistic aspects, such as ideational function is one of the new research approaches which improve a better and deeper understanding of hidden layers of texts. One of the modern Arabic and Persian literary discussions is the use of myths in modern poetry. Contemporary Arabic and Persian poets have described Hallaj's story in the form of myth. Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, a contemporary Arabic poet, and Shafiei Kadkani, a contemporary Persian poet, are among the poets who deal with the story of Hallaj in some of their poems. The method is correlative-analytical and this study tries to analyze the variety of different ideational metafunction processes of Hallaj's story in the poetry of these two poets. The results show that each of these two poets used various material processes to express their opinions. Peripheral elements such as time and space exist in the poems of both poets.

Stylistics is one of the technical and structural means of analyzing literary texts, which is highly esteemed among linguistic studies. Today, a major part of studies in linguistics focus on stylistics. This literary phenomenon and analytical method, known as aloslubia in Arabic, seeks to examine the differences between the various types of texts. Undoubtedly, the Holy Qur'an, as a matchless example of exquisite Arabic literary texts, offers an extensive perspective of verbal elegances to the readers. This provision is represented in the various ways employed by Allah to influence the readers of the Qur'an. The present descriptive-analytical research, using new stylistic criteria, aimed to study part of the beauty of this splendid book at two phonetic and syntactic levels. The results show that the elements supplying internal and external musicality of the ayahs are frequent. In addition, the coherent comprehensive rhythmic structure, represented by the types of letters and words using in each ayah, the arrangement of letters and words, rhyme, and the order of ayahs' lengths, as well as the harmony between phonemes, consonants, long and short vowels are in a way that they depict the rhythm resulting from the features of letters and their consistent link on the basis of the meanings of the ayahs.

Lord's swears can be known of two advantages; one to emphasize an important issue which paying attention to it is of principle issues for human methodology and no aim could be reached without it; the other is to express the greatness of sword; since no insignificant and minor creature swears. The present paper attempts to analyze Quranic swears and emphasizes the importance of this Divine Miracle in order to present another aspect of this miracle so as to be a field to a better understanding of all being and its facts to reconcile and please Lord.

The thought of leaving this world for the heavens, paradise and hell inspired by the Holy Prophet’s ascension appeared in the form of fictional stories in the Arabic literature in the fifth century (solar calendar), i.e. in the late Abbasid period, although the history of such journeys goes back to the time before Islam. As it goes in Pahlavi texts, the first one to have gone on oneiric journeys was Zarathustra. However, most imaginative journeys in the Arabic and Persian literatures appeared after the rise of Islam and the event of the prophet’s ascension.
Following this great event, men of letters and poets were inspired to create myths and stories that fed o their imagination, though, beliefs and moral characteristics, stories that occurred in the world of fiction and outside the realm of the real. Two of the most important of such stories in the Arabic literature include, first, Resalat al-Ghufran by Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri, which was written as a response to a letter by Ali ibn Mansour al-Halabi, a.k.a., Ibn al-Qarih, a great contemporary literary man of his and, second, Resalat al-Tawabeʿ wa al-Zawabeʿ by Ibn Shaheed al-Andalusi. In this paper, we aim to analyze the impact of the prophet’s ascension on these two works using a descriptive-analytical perspective. The results of this study show that these two works, as famous instances of ancient Arabic literature, are inspired by the prophet’s ascension from semantic, stylistic and structural aspects.