The Discourse of Educational Rajaz Poems

In Discourse of Educational Arjuzah: A Study on the Pragmatic Function of Rhythm, Dr. El Mahdi Laaraj presents a ground-breaking pragmatic and linguistic re-evaluation of classical Arabic didactic poetry (Arjuzah). Moving beyond traditional critiques that dismissed educational verse as mere mechanical rhyming lacking poetic emotion, the author examines how rhythmic structures were purposefully engineered for communicative, cognitive, and educational effectiveness.

The study traces how classical scholars harnessed the rhythmic flexibility of the Rajaz meter to codify complex scientific, linguistic, and religious knowledge. By applying modern pragmatic and discourse analysis tools, Laaraj demonstrates that rhythm in didactic poetry operated as a sophisticated memory-enhancer and pedagogic instrument, ensuring the preservation and transmission of scholarship across generations throughout Islamic civilization.

Because it offers a fresh linguistic and pragmatic analysis showing how rhythm served as a cognitive and educational technology in classical Arabic scholarship.

Linguists, specialists in pragmatics and Arabic prosody, scholars of classical Arabic literature, and researchers in historical education and pedagogy.