Semi-logical Arguments in the Correspondence of Imam Al-Mansur Billah Abdullah Bin Hamza

Abstract

This research tends to reveal the nature of the work of the types of Semii-logical arguments in the correspondence of Imam Al-Mansur Billah Abdullah bin Hamza. It tries to show the extent of his ability to attract the recipient, motivate him to think and contemplate, and convince him to accept the desired results, and how he refuted and invalidated the opponent's arguments, or pushed him to be convinced? And made him submit and surrender to what he wants. The reasons for the research go back to the presence of the argumentative phenomenon in the correspondence of Imam Al-Mansur Billah Abdullah bin Hamza.

  The importance of this research lies in the fact that it sheds light on the correspondence as a witness to the development of Arabic literature, and searches for the laws of literary discourse and their role in convincing recipients through the correspondence of Imam Al-Mansur Billah.

The researcher has adopted the descriptive approach, and the procedural steps of the pragmatic and argumentative theory, relying on the classification of Barlman and Tetkah in their book known as "The Classification of Argumentation, New Rhetoric".

   The research consists of three sections: the first is a theoretical foundation, the second is semi-logical arguments that depend on logical structures, and the third is semi-logical arguments that depend on mathematical relations. The research ends with several results, the most important of which is that the correspondence of Imam Al-Mansur depended on semi-logical arguments that depend on logical structures such as the argument of contradiction and disagreement, and semi-logical arguments that depend on mathematical relations such as the argument of transitivity.