Imam Ali’s (PBUH) Al-Shaqshqiyya Sermon: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Al- Shaqshqiyya sermon represents a political, ethical, historical, and ideological address. It encompasses the complaint about the caliphate, then highlights Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib (PBUH) stressing the importance of enduring it, followed by the people's oath of loyalty to him. This study is regarded as a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Imam Ali's Al- 7shqiyya sermon, exploring particular aspects like grammar, vocabulary, and different rhetorical techniques in this sermon to uncover its core ideology and aims to tackle the following questions: what grammatical, lexical, and rhetorical strategies are employed in Al-Imam's sermon? Secondly, how the previously discussed devices are employed in this sermon to uncover its hidden ideology?, therefore, this research aims to analyze the language techniques and reveal the hidden ideology present in the sermon. The study's procedure is divided in two sections: the initial section offers a summary of CDA, whereas the subsequent section primarily extracts the critical linguistic devices that Al-Imam Ali's sermon utilizes to uncover the hidden ideology.