Discussion of the Student Mustafa Mohsen Qassem’s Thesis

On Tuesday morning, 22/2/2022, a master thesis entitled (Linguistic and Grammatical Efforts by Prof. Dr. Adnan Abdul-Karim Juma) was discussed at the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts / University of Basrah.

The thesis presented by the student Mustafa Mohsen Qassem included a preface and three chapters. The preface dealt with his life and his scientific effects, the first chapter discussed language and rhetoric, the second chapter included the language of poetry, and the third chapter dealt with grammatical efforts.

The thesis aims to identify the various efforts presented by Prof. Dr. Adnan Abdul-Karim Juma, distributed between linguistic topics and their relationship to rhetoric and between valuable research in the field of poetry language and its various vocabulary and structures, in addition to what he presented on the level of grammar, as he dealt with many grammatical topics that he expressed his opinion on, so the main objective of this thesis was to stand at these efforts and to highlight and explain them together.

The thesis concluded that Dr. Adnan Abdul-Karim Juma had a passion for the Arabic language since his early life, so he wrote poetry in the early seventies of the twentieth century.  He has many poems, but they are not gathered in a diwan. He was interested in the role of language and what it constitutes in rhetoric. He dealt with sounds, which is an important linguistic aspect because of the proportion and harmony it forms in the formation of words and sentences. He dealt with significance and the beauty and glamor it confers on rhetoric as each rhetorical art has a special significance. Then what he wrote in the field of poetry language and his agreeing to those who said that the language of poetry is a special language that uses structures in a special way, so he studied this language from two of the greatest poets, namely Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.

Then the thesis showed his efforts in the field of grammar, as he dealt with grammatical topics, including syntax, hearing, analogy, and others, as he expressed his opinion about them, following his follow-up to the Basra grammarians in analogy to the common and many, and limiting himself to the odd, rare and strange, as well as the case in citing the Holy Qur’an.