An analysis of Literature of Prayer with an emphasis on Phonetic Levels

Document Type : Original Article

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Prayer is the crystallization of seeking help from the source of all graces, Allah, and is the answer to all the basic and transcendental needs of human beings. All people, regardless of their particular religion or beliefs, and in regard to personal characteristics and intellectual attitudes, resort to prayer. The history of prayer in Arabic literature and Islamic Culture, especially in character sketches of Infallible Imams and its role in drawing attention to Numinous truth, dates back to literary and distinctive scripts of prayer.
In this paper, with a descriptive - analytical study of the history and features of literature of prayer, it is revealed that speech of prayer has an ancient history in Arabic culture and like other types of Arabic literature including glory, sonnet, and apology have literary reduction and expansion but in eslamic Literature the dominance of monotheistic discourse, meaningful alliterations, the frequent use of phonetic especially syntactic balance are among the prominent features of the literature of prayer

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