Research Paper
A Review of Critics’ View Regarding Abd al-Rahman Shokry’s Pessimism
Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 24-11

Abstract
  As a sensitive and astute poet,Abd al-Rahman Shokry was very impressed by the events that took place around him. Researchers who have examined Shokry’s poems believe that his poetry has had several traces of pessimism, an attidude which made them believe that he is but a pessimistic poet. However, ...  Read More

Research Paper
Investigation of Jahiz’ Ideas on Poetry and Its Criticism
Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 42-25

Abstract
  Jahiz is one of the greatest critics and scholars of Arabic prose and poetry. Jahiz' ideas and thoughts on criticism have appeared here and there but mostly in his famous books, al-Hayawān and al-Bayān wa al-Tabyīn. In fact, his ideas pave the way for criticism to become independent and autonomous ...  Read More

Internal Rhythm in Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayāti Poetry: The Poetical Divan of al-Mowt Fi-l-Hayāt

Raja Abū Ali; Manizhe Zare

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 60-43

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9933

Abstract
  As a word having a Greek root, Rhythm (Iqa') means "to flow, to be in stream". In poetry, however, it means the regular sequences of a series of phonological as well as non-phonological elements, making poetry seem beautiful. As one of the most important parts of the poem, rhythm is divided into internal ...  Read More

Farouk Gweda: The Realist Romantic

Ali Nazari; Somayyeh Ownaq

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 80-61

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9932

Abstract
  Farouk Gweda, the contemporary poet and journalist (1946) gathers two different schools in his poems very nicely. His elegies hold the qualities of both Romanticism and Realism. As a poet, he looks at the external world from the view point of his own internal world and visualizes human being’s ...  Read More

Motif of "AbuzarGhaffari" in Yahyaal-Samawy’s Poetry

Marzieh Abad; Rasol Ballavi

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 96-81

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9934

Abstract
  As one of the important elements in literary critisism and analysis, motif is taken into consideration in European criticism. Originally as a French word, motif means the main thought or the subject or the iterative words and phrases in literature. In poetry, motifs have a close and fundamental relation ...  Read More

Challenges to the Arabic Language in the Globalization Era

Ali Za’erivand

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 97-108

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9935

Abstract
  As one of the major languages in the world, Arabic has long been faced with many challenges, but perhaps the phenomenon of globalization and its impact on the language of the Qur’an could be considered as one of the most crucial ones. Although linguists, writers and poets have paid much attention ...  Read More

Employing the Quranic Stories in Ummayyid Poetry

Mehdi Abedi Jazini

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 128-109

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9936

Abstract
  Among the instances of representing traditional heritage in literature are the representation of quranic stories and characters, in such a way that literature intends to incorporate the quranic stories and modify them in order to meet its intended purposes, observing the magnificence of the original ...  Read More

Religious Praises and Their Cadres in Iran from the Second Safavid Era to the Qajar One

Seyyed Hossein Marashi

Volume 2, Issue 4 , September 2012, Pages 148-129

https://doi.org/10.22054/rctall.2012.9937

Abstract
  The traces of the revival of the Arabic language in Iran was appeared when the Safavid kings invited most of the Shiite clergymen in Jabal Āmel, Lebanon, to come to Iran to support Shiism and to revive it. The immigration of Shiite jurisprudents from Lebanon and later from Bahrain to Iran as well as ...  Read More