🔤Literature & Rhetoric
Acting and lecturing
التمثيل والمحاضرة
Author: عبد الملك بن محمد بن إسماعيل أبو منصور الثعالبي (المتوفى: 429هـ) (d. 429)
About this work
هذا الكتاب "التمثيل والمحاضرة" للثعالبي أبو منصور من أعمال الأدب والبلاغة، يتناول فن التمثيل والمحاضرة في مختلف المجالات، مستعرضاً أمثلة من الكتب السماوية والقرآن الكريم وأقوال الأنبياء والحكم والأمثال العربية والعجمية. يركز على كيفية استخدام التمثيل في توصيل المعاني والأفكار بطرق فنية وجمالية، معتمداً على مصادر متعددة ومتنوعة لاستكشاف هذا الفن الأدبي.
Translation
This book, “Acting and Lecture,” by Al-Thaalabi Abu Mansour, is a work of literature and rhetoric. It deals with the art of acting and lecturing in various fields, reviewing examples from the heavenly books, the Holy Qur’an, the sayings of the prophets, wisdom, and Arabic and Persian proverbs. It focuses on how to use representation to communicate meanings and ideas in artistic and aesthetic ways, relying on multiple and diverse sources to explore this literary art.
Topics covered
- In Him are power and strength, and there is no power or strength except in Him
- The first chapter of the book
- Kindness of praise
- Model
- What is represented by it from the Torah
- And from the Bible
- And from the Psalms
- And from the words of the prophets, peace and blessings be upon them
- Like the Arabs
- It is represented by the words of the Qur’an that are better and more eloquent
- Examples of non-Arabs and common people
- Its meanings are represented in the words of the Qur’an
- Among other things that take place is the course of proverbs
- In the words of the Qur’an
- What is represented by the stories of the prophets
- And it represents the conditions of the Mustafa
- Peace and blessings be upon him
- It is represented by his sayings, which are the sums of speech
- Few words, many meanings
- This includes what he did in presenting his words
- He did not intend to give a proverb and send a paragraph so that people would imitate it
- This includes his similes and representations
- This includes the goodness of his metaphors
- This includes the good manners in his words
- This includes good naturalization
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