AL-Burhan by AL-Zarkashi IN Light Of Rhetorical Stylistics

AL-Burhan by AL-Zarkashi IN Light Of Rhetorical Stylistics examines the text of al-Burhan by Al-Zarkashi in light of rhetorical stylistics, and finds that in ?doing so, Al-Zarkashi preceded modern scholars in his identification of a number of stylistic issues and features in ?the Quran. The present article covers four principle topics. First, the researcher explains that Al-Zarkashi undertook ?his stylistic study on two levels: theoretical and practical. Second, the article explores the numerous stylistic terms ?employed in al-Burhan, some of which are found to be synonymous. Third, the article examines the components of ?Al-Zarkashi's style. And fourth, the researcher looks at the stylistic manifestations of what is termed the Qur'an's ?inimitability (i`jaz al-Qur'an) as discussed in al-Burhan. The articles concludes that the modern vision of style and ?stylistics fails to surpass the observations which Al-Zarkashi himself made in his own day, whether explicitly or ?implicitly, having revealed the stylistic details of the inimitability of Qur'anic structures, the final words in its verses ??(ayat), and similar repeated phrases and how, in its various levels of construction, the Qur'an manifests itself as a ?unified linguistic whole. ?