The Cognitive Dimensions According To Abdullah Sula

Abstract

The research deals with the cognitive efforts to see “Argumentation” according to the Tunisian critic and rhetorician Abdullah Sula in his two books “Argumentation in the Qur’an, and the Theory of Argumentation...Studies and Applications.” He examines Western theories of Argumentation and extracts from them what is appropriate for Argumentation in the Qur’an, absorbing the “stylistics” approach. The dimensions of argumentation were investigated through the word (lexicon), the sentence (structure), and the image, and it relied on pragmatics to obtain the rhetorical meaning. It combined Western language theories and the efforts of Arab linguists and commentators in dealing with the argumentation of the Qur’an, describing the argument of the Qur’an as the comprehensive argumentation that No theory can frame him, and unlike those who preceded him in this rhetorical research, he searches for the eloquence of influence and persuasion, in Quranic discourse, and not for the eloquence of “Nazm,” and this research monitors every vision, idea, or approach that contributed to shaping Abdullah’s research ability. Sula in his two books mentioned above.