The Arabic Language Department at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah discussed a PhD thesis entitled (Transformations of Modern Arabic Rhetorical Research: A Study of Foundations, Concepts, and Trends).

The researcher Ali Hussein Ali Darwish Al-Hassani’s thesis included three chapters, in which he talked about Arab rhetorical research in the period of revival and renaissance, and Arab rhetorical research in the modernity stage, in addition to Arab rhetorical research in the post-modern stage.

The thesis aims to identify the transformations that took place in modern Arab rhetoric and the impact of the most important rhetorical projects on academic rhetorical research in general, and to discuss this transformation in terms of cognitive foundations for each era or stage and the impact of these foundations on the transformation of the concept or its stability, as well as how to form new trends and paths in Arab rhetorical research.

The thesis concluded that Arabic rhetorical research starts from an important foundation, which is that the layers of rhetoric are different, and the degrees of speech are different also, which makes us believe that it is necessary for rhetorical research to mobilize special tools to discuss this disparity, so that we have extensive scientific knowledge of the tools of reading and research, because the development of rhetorical research did not always take a straight and regular historical path, but it was walking in a group of intertwined, winding lines that did not parallel until they intersected, and did not meet until they separated.