Pragma- Linguistic Analytical Study of Collocational Usage in Lady Zaynab’s Sermon in Damascus

Abstract

The paper shall embark upon a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of collocational structures observed in the famous sermon delivered by Lady Zaynab al-Kubra at Damascus, together with her strategic application of such structures. Therefore, it clearly brings out the linguistic and rhetorical strategies applied by her hence their effects on her audience in particular reference to argumentation or persuasive discourse and eloquence.

One of the most famous women in Islamic history is Zaynab bint Ali, sister of Hussain ibn Ali and granddaughter to Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima. What she did at Karbala was not simply to sit and cry but stand with consciousness turning trial into a display for truth. Her rhetoric reached its highest pitch when delivering that famous sermon within the court of Yazid in Damascus after having experienced all that happened at Karbala.