The Writing Style and the Dual Function of Language in “Flower of Manners and Fruit of Minds” by Abu Ishaq al-Qayrawani and Al-Hamduniya Reminder by Ibn Hamdun: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Writing style is considered one of the most important mirror of the method of writing, and some of them use it to promote specific ideas, which reflect authoritarian ideas, ideology that lead to the authoritarian stability and the continuation of a certain approach. Writing has the advantage of repetition, which gives it the advantage of stability, and then deviation appears as a carrier of future dimensions. This is because the text carries styles that hide intellectual, political, religious، social, and psychological ideologies, all of which reveal society’s conflicts and their various orientations. It also reveals the authoritarian struggle and the process of stereotyping society on a specific thought. Because the intellectual is part of this society who works to reveal the controlling structures, despite the intellectual monitoring imposed on them, so the writing style becomes a means of revealing the cultural structures in the two writers’ books. Therefore, this study seeks to uncover those cultural patterns that stem from the writing style with cultural titles, behind which hidden personal goals, that the intellectual hopes to achieve, appear. Since language expresses those patterns، our study is about the language at that era, the method of use، and the impact of that language in creating the model.