Narrative Statement in Islamic Prose
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Abstract
The ancient prose text is a rich and varied text, providing the researcher with a wide scope for study. Every aspect of this text can be suitable for research. Modern methods have provided ample space for reviving the ancient literary heritage in new forms. Narrative studies, for example, have lavished many of their concepts, and these concepts have been brought into the world of prose, encouraged by the dissolution of boundaries between literary genres and the development witnessed by the world of literary criticism in this field. Narration and dialogue are no longer the preserve of stories and novels, but have extended to letters, not as intrusive, foreign elements, but as elements that shape the literary structure and structure of prose. We are not surprised, then, if we find studies in the narratives of political letters and other literary letters that flow in this same direction. Imagery, as a narrative technique, enables us to enter the world of ancient prose without difficulty, based on the availability of its elements in the structure of this prose. There is hardly an Islamic message that is devoid of a dialogue or a kinetic description that forms a single or complex scene that is tempting to study and research... This is what encouraged me to choose this topic as the title of my research (The Art of Narrative in the Epistles of the Islamic Era). I divided it into three sections preceded by an introduction in which I presented the concept of narration as an artistic technique, in a brief and quick manner. The first section was titled Narrative: Its Types and Functions. In the second section, which was titled (Narrative Components), I addressed narration and its relationship to characters. I studied that relationship in detail through the characters' movement and dialogue. As for the third chapter, I addressed the artistic image within the narrative fabric and the aesthetics it adds to the prose scene. Then I attached the research to a conclusion in which I highlighted the most important general lines of the research results. I followed this conclusion with a list of sources and references.