The Literary Style of Supplication during the Abbasid Era using Misbahal Mujtahid’s Book as a Model

Abstract

Literature, criticism, thought, rhetoric, and eloquence were important during the Abbasid era. In addition, one of the characteristics that distinguished this era, author, and the book was its stylistics. Before the Abbasid era, supplication was a component of famous writing; but, during the Abbasid era, it was codified. The Abbasids, specifically what was communicated from Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon him, as it contains a unique supplication for the infallible Imam who lived during the Abbasid era or was transmitted from him before that time. The research examines literary stylistics, the amount of aesthetic beauty it possesses, its shadows on prayer, and its reflections on the human spirit. Thus, stylistics is the study of language in terms of sound as a significant tone, intonation, rhyme, interview, naturalization, and what is manifested in the beautiful voice, as well as the verbal structure and significance in its eloquence, according to their different meanings. And what it gives of mental images and their effect on the soul of the recipient human, and the semantic level in a statement or between the word as a key or etymology, or an analogy or a metaphor, in which the research examines each of the three levels of research, with one example focusing on a rhetorical element and the other on a stylistic element.