CONCRETİZATİON İN THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S STYLE THROUGH ANİMAL-BASED METAPHORS
HAYVANLARLA İLGİLİ METAFORLAR ÖZELİNDE HZ. PEYGAMBERİN ÜSLUBUNDA SOMUTLAŞTIRMA

Author : Duran EKİZER
Number of pages : 162-169

Abstract

Concretization is a very important literary style which is executed through expression techniques such as simile, metaphor, and metonymy. The Prophet Muhammad occasionally used concretization through expression styles like simile and metaphor in order to get accross his message to his adressees in a more picturesque and conspicous way. Some of the most effective metaphors he used were based on the animals living in the Arabian Peninsula at the time of the Prophet. In this paper, a literary analysis of some of the prophetic hadiths that contain such metaphors is offered. This study shows that concretization through animal-based metaphors constitute one of the most striking elements of the Prophet’s literary style.

Keywords

Metaphor, literary style, animals, hadith, comparison

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