Department of Arabic Organizes a Workshop on Poetic Necessity Between Prosody and Grammar

The Department of Arabic at the College of Education for theHumanities, University of Kerbala, organized a workshop entitled “Poetic Necessity Between the Sciences of Prosody and Grammar”, delivered by Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahoud Thu’ban YousifAl-Asadi and Lect. Dr. Qusay Thu’ban Yousif Al-Asadi.

The workshop aimed to introduce students to the concept of poetic necessity, its types, its significance to poetry, and the grammatical perspective on it. It also sought to clarify the relationship between the science of prosody, which focuses on meter, and the science of grammar, which focuses on parsing and syntactic structure.

The workshop covered the following topics: the definition of poetic necessity; poetic necessity in relation to the science of prosody; poetic necessity in relation to the science of grammar; and the various types of poetic necessity.