Women Portrayal in the Road of Eloquence: Discourse Justification

Abstract

The research is an attempt to enroll the image of women, andthe discourse related to such a portrayal in the Road of Eloquence.When reviewing the issue of women , one could find certain wordsbelittling them as inferior , weak an a scorpion with attractive raimentand so on. The main purpose of the present article is to searchfor reasons of such description in line with the social solidarity ,respect for human rights, educational guidance and regulation ofthe life of the individual with all kinds of social justice ; wife, motheror daughter. The approach of Nahj-Al-Balaghah is a broad memorythat contains the origins of life, including the social discourse concernedwith women, and comes with much prose such as: rhetoric,commandment, speech, saying, and writing. There is a praiseworthyspeech to AL-Zahra'a (Pbuh) in indirect way .Finally, tracing the portrayal of the woman is the purpose of thisfeminist discourse to manifest the great niche of the woman foundin such an essential source and to clarify the linguistic components, grammatical, rhetorical, and humanistic, and contextual , behindthis portrayal .