A master's thesis entitled "The Narration of the Margins - A Study in the book of Relief After Distress by Al-Mohsen Al-Tanukhi, was discussed in the Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts.
The thesis, presented by the student Falah Hassan Shaker, included three chapters. The first chapter dealt with Arab culture and the patterns of marginalization. The second chapter involved the marginal group in the book of relief after distress. The third chapter referred to the narrative formation of the news of the marginalized people in the Relief after Distress Book.
The thesis aims to study the phenomenon of the marginalized in the ancient Arab narrative, and to uncover the references behind the negative and objective representation of the marginal groups in the narration, and to explain how the narration dealt with these groups.
The study concluded that some of the news included representations that include "marginalization patterns" related to either cultural, political or economic references. It also concluded that the narration possesses a distinctive ability to represent the same marginalized groups, preoccupied with conveying the daily details of their life, expressing their concerns and aspirations, and conveying their resistance to the practices of their marginalization.
The study found several types of marginalized people represented in the narrative, including representations of the cultural marginalized that included women, blacks, slaves, people of professions and people of knowledge, and representations of the political marginalized that included Alawites, and the "Umayyad remnants", and marginalized people from within the ruling families. And representations of economic marginalization that included the general poor, small sellers, peasants, cutters, and calibers.
