البلاغة و النقد الأدبي : الوظائف و المساحات المشتركة : دراسة تاريخ النظم و تطوره

Abstract EN

Despite the confluence of rhetoric and criticism in one workspace, which is the literary text, there exist differences between them as the differences between science and art; rhetoric is a science of rules and boundaries and its statements are ruled by logical restrictions; however, criticism is an art that is based on analysis, judgment, comment, and evaluation and its processes are governed by a creative freedom.

Yet, these differences do not hinder their overlapping as long as they converge in the area of the literary text.

So, some rhetorical statements might occur and lead to critical processes in rhetoric, which produces a critical art with a rhetorical taste and a rhetoric with a taste of a critical art.

Versing (Nazm) is considered as one of the most common spaces between criticism and rhetoric as they investigate its history and evolution of its concept for it reveals the miracles of the Quranic text.

We also attempt in this paper to show the historical role of the rhetoric and criticism in the study of the Arabic prose’ history and evolution to uncover the secrets of the Quranic inimitability by focusing on Abdulkaher El Jurjani, who linked between critics rhetoric and the inimitability scholars in his theory of versing (Nazm)