The Technical Semantic Structure of the Will of al-Alama al-Hilly to his son Fakhrul Muhaqiqin Stylistic Study

البناء الفنّي الدّلالي في وصيّة العلاّمة الحلّي قدس لابنه فخر المحقّقين قدس

Abstract

The will generally takes the direction of guidance and instruction, and is based on life experiences in which the author concludes his judgments on life matters. However, though the will of the al-Alama al-Hilly to his son Fakhrul Muhaqiqin is full of preaching and evidence and is rich in the methods of argument and persuasion, but we try to study it stylistically. The will has different stylistic traits on which the author (devisor) relies in order to influence the devisee. In this sense, we monitor the stylistic features of the text through the phonetic, semantic and syntactic levels and joining all that to the intellectual innovation of the al-Alama al-Hilly. The study deals with the morphological forms and their semantic effect, the phonetic rhythm in the text, the structure and its semantic effect (deletion, objection, contradiction...) to conclude that in addition to the religious and moral ideas in the text of the will. It carries the stylistic features that enrich its rhetoric status and affect the recipient due to its aesthetic effect that establishes its guiding and instructional content.