Phonetic stylistics in the poetry of Rajih al-Hilli (d. 627 AH)

Abstract

Stylistic studies have been able to find their place and immunity among contemporary critical approaches, thanks to their scientific nature and objectivity. This study focuses on the phonetic level and its harmony with other structural, prosodic, and rhetorical levels within a Mamluk-era poetic text, the poetry of Rajih al-Hilli (d. 627 AH), answering a fundamental question: What are the phonetic features of his poetry? What is the aesthetic and functional dimension of these sounds? And how did they form a distinctive style in his collection of poems? The study thus comes within the framework of phonetic analysis of the produced text, which constitutes the relationship between the elements of the phonetic structure of the poetic text, where a group of interacting and interconnected elements form a connection based on the diversity of sounds, their similarity, and their phonetic features. This connection impacts the reader and listener in a poetic experience that reflects pride in oneself, one's dignity, and courage, combined with praise for the Ayyubid kings, princes, and ministers, demonstrating loyalty to them and defending their kings. The study focuses on the stylistic possibilities and cohesion of the structure of the poet Rajih Sharaf al-Din al-Hilli, through the vocal fluctuation in harmony and compatibility of sounds, highlighting the psychological emotions and poetic experience, which constitute one of his linguistic structures interacting and interconnected with sound and its features, and revealing the role played by the vocal formation of falling and rising in stress and tone, forming the vocal segments, and pauses in the joint in showing the functional semantic value of words and their performance within the framework of its vocal elements that are distinct in their diversity and stylistic difference between sounds.