The figure of thought in the letters in Egypt from the Islamic conquest to the end of the Tulunid period

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Faculty of Arts, Aswan University, Aswan

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The text is not only complemented by the beauty of its language, style, and the quality of its construction, but the figure of thought is necessary in which the beauty of the text is completed, and meanings and ideas are expressed in a different way through the embodiment and diagnosis of meanings, and the amplification and intensification of significance.

The writers of Egypt, from the Islamic conquest to the end of the Tulunid period, derived their figures of thought from the Arab and Egyptian environment in which they lived, so the figures of thought were numerous in their letters. Given the multiplicity aspects of Egyptian life before the eyes and minds of writers, so they relied on comparisons, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, drawing from their fertile imagination images that come alive with movement, color, and sound. These figures of thought were not sophisticated and complex, but were homogeneous and harmonious serving meaning.

The writers of Egypt at the time resorted to repetition and synonymy to complete the parts of the figure of thought, and highlight some of them. Many of the letters of this time period were printed with an artistic character, just as the art of letters in the Tulunid period developed greatly. Where The writers of this period meant to embellish their letters, and beautifying their ideas and meanings in an aesthetic artistic style. Where they began to look at the letters as a piece of art or beautiful painting that must be given more elegance.

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