Ziba Kazemiyan,
Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring and summer 2021)
Abstract
In the Holy Quran, numerous valuable and instructive concepts are presented as stories by God Almighty. As goals and works refer to a single truth, it should be pointed that the stories of the Holy Quran are a selective narration of previous nations with specific purposes. Accordingly, this article tries to open a new window onto the structure and method of Qur'anic stories based on an approach grounded in Shiite interpretations. The paper sets out to examine various dimensions of Qur'anic stories, exploring their aims, structure, and methods of processing. Hence, the elements of Quranic stories are examined base on a descriptive and analytical methodology.
It is suggted that the act of narration in Quranic stories can be divided into past, present and future according to the time of events. Some Qur'anic stories narrate the stories of previous prophets and tribes to reduce the suffering of the Prophet and guide the true believers; some other stories chronicle the events of the present or future of the Prophet's era, describing the stories and events of the Prophet's life with his fellowmen; others foretell maily horrific future events that will occur sooner or later. The structure of Quranic stories, regardless of its fundamental and thematic differences with non-Quranic stories, i.e. the superiority of instructive dimensions in adhering to the elements of storytelling including characterization and element of time/place, enjoys an appealing and special form as it takes advantage of artistic textual elements.
Elham Kazemi, Jahangir Amiri, Yahya Maroof, Maryam Rahmati Torkashvand,
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Fall and winter 2022 2022)
Abstract
Critical discourse analysis is one of the new language tools used to investigate the hidden relationship between language and ideology in society. And it shows the moral and ideological values hidden in the critical discourse. The present article aims to analyze the novel "Ahdab Baghdad" by the contemporary Iraqi novelist Riyad al-Qazi, relying on the descriptive-analytical method and based on Farklough's theory of critical discourse analysis, which is based on the proposition that: "Critical discourse as a tool for analysis social and cultural changes in three levels of description, interpretation and expression". Riyad al-Qadi has been able to provide the reader with a clear and transparent image of the Iraqi society by using narrative tools. One of the most important achievements and results of this research, which was conducted with a descriptive analytical method, is that in the Iraqi society, the discourse of power represented by the American occupiers and Iraqi autocrats has imposed its voice and ideology on the discourse of the society. And this has led to the spread of political, social and moral corruption, and the prevalence of embezzlement, theft, kidnapping, assassination, murder, smuggling, discrimination, cruelty, betrayal, family disintegration, etc.
