Arap Edebiyatında Hayalî Tasvir Üslubu ve Kur’ân Kıssalarındaki İzdüşümü
Imaginary Description Style in Arabic Literature and its Projection in The Quran

Summary/Abstract: The critics of classical Arabic literature have attached particular importance to the description style in poetry or any literary genre. They considered the style of description, which they regarded as "painting with writing" in general, among the sine qua non of poetry. They even accepted that most of the poetry, except for a few, consisted of description. On the one hand, while the critics of Arabic literature dwell on the nature of the description, its importance, and the basic criteria to be sought in a successful description, on the other hand, the literati have brought the most beautiful examples of description to the Arabic literature by adapting the description to literary genres with all its colors and varieties. In this sense, they have made undeniable contributions to Arabic literature. While categorizing the depiction, they divided it into two as the transfer of the depicted element as it is and the transfer by adding artistic interpretation to it. In addition to all these, historians and critics of Arabic literature in the modern period have also brought some conceptual expansions to meet the types of depictions. For example, Ömer Ferruh, one of the well-known Arabic literature historians of the modern period, divided the depiction style into emotional (sensory) and imaginary depiction. He called the transfer of the described elements of the external world felt by the basic sense organs as they are without adding any additions or interpretations, emotional depiction, and the transfer of them by embellishing them with rhetoric such as simile and metaphor, imaginary depiction. According to this, while the starting point of the emotional (sensorial) description is only the perceived physical environment itself, the elements of the physical environment are also included in the imaginary description which the starting point of it is the memory and imagination of the human beings. Therefore, in the imaginary description, the imagination of the poet or the literary person who performs the depiction style plays a leading role.

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