Irony and its aesthetics in the reformist discourse of Sheikh Muhammad alBashir al-Ibrahimi

Abstract

The method of irony is one of the most powerful rhetorical methods used by writers and poets to vent their repressed feelings and express what is on their minds, because this method possesses artistic strategies that work to hide special connotations behind the meanings, either with a word, a situation, or a context through which the paradox of reality appears. In the style of unreality, Al-Ibrahimi made this stylistic technique a powerful weapon against the French occupation and its remnants to reveal their plans. He also depicted his vision of his individual and collective reality with the fewest words and the most abundant meanings, and this would excite the recipient and push him to try to understand the connotations of paradox, explore its depths, and reveal its artistic formations. This paper aims to identify some applications of the phenomenon of paradox and its aesthetic impact, which served the poetics of the reformist discourse in the prose of Sheikh Muhammad Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi