Similarities to Moses’ childhood In the Arabic narrative, there is a poetic-historical approach

Alsonaidi, Mohammad

doi:10.21608/zjac.2024.276142.1158

Similarities to Moses’ childhood In the Arabic narrative, there is a poetic-historical approach

Document Type : Original Article

Author

mohammad alsonaidi

Qassim University

10.21608/zjac.2024.276142.1158

Abstract

The childhood of Moses the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, had something similar to it, such as if a child was thrown into the water, or his upbringing was assigned to an opponent of his, just as Moses was thrown into the sea, and his opponent “Pharaoh” picked him up and raised him. Among the characters who had a childhood like the childhood of Moses, and which the research studied was: the story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Ibn Dhi Yazan, Nashirah Al-Taghlabi, Jabal bin Al Hamdan, and Sarjun Al-Akkadi.
The research follows the historical structural approach, as it arranges the narrations according to seniority in the time in which they were narrated, and not according to their actual time, and extracts similarities while explaining their differences and function.
The similarities are: (the illocutionary similarity) and (the educational similarity), such that a child is thrown into water, or is raised by his opponent. The two similarities may come together in one story, or the similarity may be limited to one of them. These similarities between the stories are called the (Motive), and the research alerts. However, this term has other concepts, and some narrative scholars distinguish it from (Topos).
It is noticeable that the narratives studied are diverse in eras and genres, including news, a philosophical story, a popular biography, a novel, and a play.
The narrative motives studied in narrative development differ between kinetic and static, and in their function between descriptive, narrative, and argumentative.

Keywords