The Manifestations of Rhythm and its Indications in the Letters of Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari

Abstract

This study attempts to investigate the rhythm in Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Fadlallah Al-Umari's letters and reveals the indications of internal and external rhythm and their effects on the texts. Also, it studies the capability of discovering the macro and micro idea of rhythm. Therefore, it was purposed to scrutinize the micro rhythmic structures in the writer's letters which associated to form the macro rhythm that has been represented in acoustic rhythm (rhythm of individual letters) which resulted from the repetition of a letter (sound) in each word structure, or in the structure of words existed in successive sentences, morphological rhythm (rhythm of inflectional forms) represented by the repetition of the same inflectional weight in successive sentences, and rhetorical rhythm in selecting alliteration and assonance with assigning examples from the texts; bearing in mind that the assonance is one of the most noted generators of rhythm. Al-Umari adhered to employ it in all his letters, from the beginning to end for each one. in addition to, prosodic rhythm existed in poem verses of the letters surrounded by sentences have such rhythm as well