Arts and Social Sciences Series

Argumentative Methods in Surah Al-Mu'minun (A Stylistic Study)

2025-08-22T11:47:40+02:00

The argumentative style in the Holy Quran is manifested with a unique eloquence that addresses both intellect and emotions, blending precise logic with captivating expression, making its arguments clear as sunlight, convincing minds and touching hearts. This research aims to analyze argumentative methods in Surah Al-Mu'minun, revealing their role in shaping the Qur'anic discourse and achieving its persuasive objectives, with a focus on the rhetorical mechanisms contributing to intellectual and emotional persuasion. The research significance lies in exploring the aspects of the Qur'an's inimitability of expression through analyzing its argumentative methods in the Surah, including Requestive Discourse, Declarative Style, and Argumentative Dialogue Style, while highlighting their impact in persuading recipient, providing a methodological model for analyzing Qur'anic discourse.

The study adopts a stylistic analytical approach to identify linguistic and rhetorical characteristics of the Surah. The findings reveal that Surah Al-Mu'minun employs a harmonious array of argumentative methods. Requestive Discourse stimulates reflection, Declarative Style establishes fixed truths, and Argumentative Dialogue Style creates lively interaction with recipient. It highlights Qur'an's ability to combine logic and emotional impact, making its arguments profoundly effective.

Based on these findings, the research recommends expanding the scope of stylistic studies on Qur'anic argumentation to include other Surahs. It suggests integrating these analyses into Arabic rhetoric curricula and calls for comparative studies between Qur'anic argumentation and other discourse styles. It also contributes to advancing research on Qur'an's inimitability of expression and argumentative structure, opening new horizons for researchers in contemporary Qur'anic studies.

Political and administrative regulations during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–1909): The Memorandum of Governors Muḥammad and Shākir Pasha of Bitlis as a Case Study

2025-07-31T09:39:17+02:00

This study presents and analyses a memorandum prepared by Muḥammad Pasha, the Governor of Bitlis, and Shākir Pasha that addresses political, administrative and social issues in Iraq during the Ottoman period. The document is a valuable historical source for understanding Ottoman governance in Iraq, particularly during the second half of the nineteenth century — a pivotal period characterised by the convergence of Ottoman reform initiatives and mounting challenges in the empire's peripheral regions.

This memorandum is important because it reflects official Ottoman perspectives on managing Iraq and proposes ways to address local issues, including security challenges, tribal relations, social balances, and administrative organisation. By translating the memorandum from Ottoman Turkish into Arabic, this study seeks to make it accessible to Arab researchers, thereby making a valuable scholarly contribution to Ottoman studies.

This initiative addresses a clear knowledge gap, as Arabic-language scholarship lacks translated Ottoman texts shedding light on administrative strategies in frontier regions. Studying such documents enhances academic understanding of Ottoman policy and helps to uncover historical issues that continue to influence the region today, such as state–society relations, resource management and the complexities of engaging with tribal structures.

Furthermore, this memorandum can be situated within a broader collection of texts that were pivotal in shaping the Ottoman state’s perceptions of Iraq. A notable example is the report by Baghdad Governor ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Nūrī al-Dīn Pasha, which addressed comparable administrative, social, and economic issues. Such documents emphasise the ongoing significance of historical administrative practices.

Keywords: Iraq, Muḥammad Pasha, Shākir Pasha, Ottoman reform, security challenges, tribal relations, social structure, economic resources.

Representations of the Institutional Critic and Its Critical Lenses

2025-09-06T08:17:34+02:00

This study argues that the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) winner announcements are not protocolary news but performative texts that construct literary value and redistribute symbolic capital. They embody the “institutional critic” as a collective subject that legitimizes judgment on behalf of the institution. Positioned within meta-criticism, the research employs an ethno-discursive protocol that combines an ethnographic perspective—treating discourse as a cultural-institutional practice reflecting actors’ roles—with a discursive approach that deconstructs linguistic structures.

The longitudinal analysis (2019–2025) reveals shifting centers of legitimacy and evolving representations of the institutional critic, from formalist gatekeeper to moral advocate and myth-maker. It also demonstrates that institutional translation operates as a secondary critical practice that globalizes local texts, while the “economy of silence” in concealing deliberations functions as a strategy of prestige.

Ultimately, the study provides a reusable protocol for examining cultural legitimation discourses and the role of institutional critics in Arab literary prize culture

"The development of education in Jordan during the period(1948-1959) "Kafryuba School as a model based on its record as a source"

2025-07-03T12:27:37+02:00

This paper aimed to shed light on the educational development in Jordan during 1948-1959. Kufuyba School as an example. it also aimed to describe The historical records and documents based on students archive that included the updated educational stages, student names and numbers, student marks, curricula and school visits record which in clued the official visitor to the school from the ministry of education, ministry of heath and Agricultural Department .

The study a employed the descriptive, analytical, and historical approaches to achieve its goals. The result of study showed that the school was established during the period of establishing Trans- Jordan. This school was centre for the surrounding villages. The study recommended to keep the records and the documents in schools and to archive.