Assistant Lecturer Zaman Abdel Abbas Hassan
The research dealt with stylistic criticism in Al-Hariri’s Al-San’aniyya Maqamat, which is an essay-narrative art of maqamat. In it, we tried to identify the critical aesthetic levels, such as the substitutional semantic level and the metaphorical, metonymic, and simile formation that it entails under its umbrella, and then to identify the formation of sarcastic irony and stylistic contradiction, in addition to identifying At the contextual and structural level, and the audio and musical level, then the conclusion and the most important results we reached during the research.
Keywords:stylistic criticism, art of Maqamah, aesthetic level, sarcastic irony.