Rise of Power and Woman’s Inferiority and Their Patterned Transformations:Abbasid Era Anecdotes As a Model

Abstract

This paper is based on a main idea which is criticizing the cultural patterns of speech hidden in the anecdote’s text. Revealing these patterns depends on the explanatory effort and also knowing the cultural aspects of the text to figure out the intended cultural meaning of the text or speech. One of the most significant features of the anecdote’s speech in Abbasid Era, which is the field of study and criticism in this paper, is the duality of center and marginality, and also the conflict between the obvious pattern of the rise of masculine power and the woman’s inferiority, and the hidden pattern that refers to the patterned transformation in the text. In other words, it is about centrality of the margin and marginalizing the center. This is what is going to be revealed through the critical treatments of the texts of the selected anecdotes