Letters of the Great Messenger (May God bless him and grant him peace) to Kings and Princes "A Text grammar Study

Abstract

The research aims to clarify the concept of the letters of the Great Messenger – may God bless him and grant him peace - to kings and princes, and to show their importance at the religious, political, historical, linguistic and literary levels. It also aims to reveal the role of each of the following concepts: the overall structure, the reference, the syntactic relations, the semantic relations, and the context in constructing the texts of these letters, their coherence, and forming the meanings of their elements.

The researcher has relied on the descriptive approach in his study. The plan of this research consisted of a preface, an introduction, Four chapters, and a conclusion.

As for the introduction, entitled (A Theoretical Background), it examines the concepts of: (the letters, and the text syntax).

Chapter 1: (the role of the overall structure of the letters in constructing the text, its meanings, and its coherence).

Chapter 2: (the role of reference in constructing the texts of letters, their meanings and coherence).

Chapter 3: (the role of syntactic and semantic relations in constructing the texts of letters, their meanings and coherence).

Chapter 4: (the role of context in constructing the texts of letters, and their meanings and coherence).

The conclusion includes the most important results and recommendations of the study.

The most important results found in the present study are as follows:

• These letters represent the universality of Islam and the universality of the Muhammadian message, in addition to establishing the principles of diplomacy and political relations in Islam.
• The general structure of these letters played a prominent role in constructing the text, its meanings and coherence.
• The reference played a prominent role in linking the sentences of the texts of the letters to each other through four prominent allusive elements besides the referential elements associated with each of them, forming a cohesive network throughout the text of the letters.
• The relationship of (condition and answer), as a syntactic relationship along with the significance relationships that resulted from it, such as the causal relationship and the reciprocal relationship, was clearly prominent in the coherence of the texts of these letters and the construction of their meanings.
• The context has also played a distinctive role in the diversity of the styles of discourse in the texts of the letters based on the previous knowledge of the Great Messenger – may God bless him and grant him peace – of the requirements of the recipient's (addressee's) situation.