In the Arabic department at the College of Arts, the PhD thesis titled "Modernists' Replies on Linguistic Inimitability: a Critical Study" was defended.
The thesis, submitted by the student Wisam L. Dhahir, included three chapters in which the author dealt with the discoursal trend in critiquing linguistic inimitability, the modernist trend in critiquing linguistic inimitability, and the intentional trend in critiquing linguistic inimitability.
The thesis attempted to clarify the issue of inimitability from the linguistic aspect between the ancients and the moderns, and knowing the responses of modern scholars to the premises of ancient scholars in the issue of inimitability. In addition, the researcher explored those responses critically to clarify the sources of strength and weakness in them and highlighting the appropriate ones with the requirements of the Qur’anic text.
The thesis concluded that the studies of the discoursal inimitability of the applicants' studies in the miraculous were school studies aimed at the grammatical rooting of the science of rhetoric rather than their concern with the miraculous itself, which necessitated a review of the discoursal inheritance of the miracle of the Qur'an.
