THE ISSUE OF PRONUNCIATION AND MEANING IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC CRITICISM, WALEED KASAB AS EXAMPLE

Abstract

The issue of pronunciation and meaning is one of the critical issues that preoccupied the old critics, and controversy raged between them in defining the term for each of them in giving the literary text its artistic value. Views on it varied, some of them made “meaning” the most important component of a literary work and the strongest support for its success while underestimating the importance of the pronunciation, and some attributed it to the pronunciation, and some combined them. Among those who were known to have the meaning and to give it precedence over the word are Abu Amr al-Shaibani, al-Amidi, Abu Tammam, al-Mutanabi, Ibn al-Rumi, and Ibn al-Atheer.And they put it in importance after the meaning, and they based this opinion on the fact that the meanings are the guide for people and their goal, and the words are only a means to this end. And the opposite side are the supporters of the pronunciation, who put the word virtue, and care about its right, and see that the true evaluation of literature is based on formulation, for they have the words that the sentences meet the characteristics set for artistic formulation by the writer so that the speech is from the door of his entry into literature, and critics are those who combine the pronunciation and meaning Alike and do not differentiate between them, or trying to overcome one over the other, or that the artistic value of the writer appears in one without the other, which is the ideal view of art. This is what the ancient Arab critics put forward from their views on the issue of pronunciation and meaning, and they are close to each other.On the importance of pronunciation and meaning in literary work, even if this theory developed and became with Abdul Qaher Al-Jarjani in the name of (systems) theory