this study aims to examine how the poetry of mamduh udvan was affected by quranic inspirations and show how the high language and noble meanings of the quran enhanced the modern poetry to artistic levels. this search for inspiration in udvan’s poetry has different manifestations examples of which are provided at two levels in this article: 1) lexical levels in which the poet resort to quranic l...

Muslims believe that the The Holy Quran is the message of God Almighty which has been transmitted to His messenger, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), through revelation in the Arabic language. This Holy book has been translated into many languages, including English. Although the content of the The Holy Quran has been translated into the English language, few studies have been conducted to explore the b...

in the holy quran, due to various factors, word or phrase will take different features. and this makes commentators and translators have multiple understandings from a special verse. then in the holy quran beside verses with definite meaning and implication we encounter verses that for some factors we will face various possibilities in their meaning. so that none of the commentators and pundits...

the concept of “kalama” has always been one of the most important and yet complicated concepts that has been brought to attention in human and divine schools of thoughts. “kalama” has also claimed a special place in the holy qur’an, and the repetition of it throughout the book is a sign of its importance. semantics of quranic words is one of the modern methods of investigation in holy qur’an. t...

Associating certain forms and designs in Islamic Arts with the promised Heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. It is believed that Islamic Art has been derived from the imagination of the Paradise as depicted in Holy Quran. To express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in Islamic Arts has been the gardens of h...

the phenomenon of intertextuality is the important phenomena critique at contemporary critics. it is a common relationship between two texts or number of texts in an evoking manner. contemporary critics consider this phenomenon of different aspects such as sources, forms and species. religion and religious heritage of the most important sources that inspired poets and writers since ancient and ...

abstract “wisdom of islamic art” is relatively a full of application, prevalent and concurrently ambiguous combination, that, despite the studies conducted on it, still no clear meaning of it is at hand. due to the existence of this confusion in the meaning, sometimes the wisdom of islamic art, despite the distinction that exists, is considered equal to “philosophy of islamic art.” as the appli...

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklo...