a genre of novel was created during abbasid period which is considered the product of this same period. the founder of this genre was a famous writer from hamada, called badi’ al-zamon hamadani. he called it maghama and used it as a means to bring up different social thoughts. after him, hariry used this genre. he exactly followed badi, al-zaman hamadani in creating maghama, discussing its subj...

proverb is one of the most beautiful rhetorical arts which makes delivering discourse close to the target and stabilizes meaning for the addressee. it has some features such as word briefness, suitable meaning,nice similie,fast circulation,ability to bring noticeable points closer to the reasonable ones and its acceptance by the public opinion. for this reason,this kind of innovative rhetorical...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

For many years ago, handwriting is a challenger interest, both online and off line recognition of the handwriting are largely presented in literature. Latin script studies were largely presented using UNIPEN or IRONOFF databases. But Arabic studies were poorly presented in literature because there are no common Arabic d...

New input and output concepts under Unicode: Literary, Classical and Qurʾānic Arabic in Unicode involve more characters than the Arabic keyboard can accommodate. To enter sophisticated Arabic, Basis Technology and DecoType jointly developed an IME (input method editor): ALI (Arabic, Latin Input). When used at full power, ALI overstretches conventional font technology. Only DecoType’s Arabic Cal...

This study is an attempt to build a contemporary linguistic corpus for Arabic language. The corpus produced, is a text corpus includes more than five million newspaper articles. It contains over a billion and a half words in total, out of which, there is about three million unique words. The data were collected from newspaper articles in ten major news sources from eight Arabic countries, over ...

We develop an open-source large-scale finitestate morphological processing toolkit (AraComLex) for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) distributed under the GPLv3 license.1 The morphological transducer is based on a lexical database specifically constructed for this purpose. In contrast to previous resources, the database is tuned to MSA, eliminating lexical entries no longer attested in contemporary ...

most of the researches do not differentiate between intuitive critic and passive one – in the field of features, applications and methods. this critical school is called emotional or passive critics which emphasizes aesthetics. thus sensitivity is not the only appliance to wisdom but is a mean to inspire happiness or unhappiness feeling. consequently the passive (critical) school is the result ...

An extended, revised form of Tim Buckwalter’s Arabic lexical and morphological resource AraMorph, eXtended Revised AraMorph (henceforth XRAM), is presented which addresses a number of weaknesses and inconsistencies of the original model by allowing a wider coverage of real-world Classical and contemporary (both formal and informal) Arabic texts. Building upon previous research, XRAM enhancement...

In her article "Transcultural Literature and Dagnino argues that within the emerging field of transcultural literary studies and despite the inevitable issues raised by categorization, we may classify transcultural literature domain of world literature(s). Dagnino presents transcultural perspective in the fields of proceeds by outlining the main conto respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial lit...