On sunday morning, October 17, 2021, a doctoral thesis was discussed in the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts, which is entitled the miraculous narration in the book “The Masterpiece of Minds and the Elite of Admiration.”
The thesis presented by the student Tariq Nasser Habeeb included three chapters. The first chapter discussed the miraculous dimension in the narration of Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati. The second chapter discussed the objective dimension of the miraculous narration, and the third chapter dealt with the manifestations of the miraculous narration.
The thesis aims to reveal the features of the miraculous narration of a writer from the sixth century AH. The previous research shed some light on the features of the miraculous narration without identifying the nature of the objective and miraculous features of the narration. It did not study the miraculous relationship with the types of narrators, focus, the type of narration and the effect of exaggeration in the narration. The thesis also did not overlook the type of relationship between the miraculous, religion, society and culture.
The thesis concluded that the narration according to Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati includes the personality at the moment of hesitation. The tales and news he narrates are dominated by skepticism, and the personality is trying to push doubt about the interpretation of events to the power of God and our ignorance of His wisdom. From Todorov’s perspective of the miraculous, the narration of Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati is doubtful as a tale of a traveler who exaggerates what he sees, and the texts he narrates are bot scientifically accurate, not in seeing or hearing.
