Scientific workshop
Under the auspices of Professor Dr. Sabah Wajid Ali, Dean of the College of Education for Humanities, the college’s Continuing Education Unit, in collaboration with the Arabic Language Department, held a scientific workshop this morning, Sunday, March 17, 2024, at ten thirty. The workshop, entitled “The Miraculous Dimension in the Novel Clay is Free,” was led by Taha Hamed Al-Shabib and was intended for professors as well as graduate and undergraduate students. The workshop was introduced by Dr. Rafal Hussein Taha.
The workshop aimed to: explain the importance of employing modern methods related to the imaginary aspect of the novel (the miraculous dimension) and consider it an essential part of it and its narrative structure. Explaining the great difference that such employment makes in supporting the idea of the novel and reconciling it—through that method—in linking the real and the imaginary—the aesthetics of miraculous employment in transferring the world of the novel from stereotyping and imitation to exploring new visions and dimensions in the narrative.
The workshop, which was held under the title of the miraculous dimension in the novel Clay Free by Taha Hamid Al-Shabib, included talking about one of the most important modern data that has been brought about by dealing with such modern narrative methods, which is the miraculous dimension employed by the novelist Taha Hamid Al-Shabib and his high ability to blend reality. Illusion, imagination, or wonder.
One of the most important outcomes of this workshop, which is titled (The Miraculous Dimension in the Novel Clay Free by Taha Hamid Al-Shabib, is the identification of this term and its importance in modern narrative uses… and how it forms a style, or even an independent narrative form in many cases… It is also one of the most important things that can be recommended. The research is to realize the difficulty of writing according to such modernist forms that have a deep psychological and philosophical significance… No novelist is able to do such a thing except those who have the forelock of a wild imagination and far-reaching goals. This modern narrative style has provided the opportunity for the novelist to express the depths of the human soul and its dangerous fluctuations in a Ramez-inspired style. The lecturer called on researchers to delve deeper into the term “miraculous” and the novelist Taha Hamid Al-Shabib and his novel (Free Clay), as it contributes to clarifying the nature of employing the miraculous dimension or content in the texts of the novel.
