The Sunni Structure in the Novel of the Northern Giants by Najib Al-Kilani: A Study of Objectives and Semantics

Abstract

This study aims to highlight the role of sunni analysis in interpreting events and characterizing the actions of characters with the meanings and connotations they deserve. The Sunnah analysis is based on observing the actions of the personalities, tracing them, and clarifying the link between them and the actions of God Almighty and His well-established and established laws. And the Sunnah analysis is not valid unless the researcher shows the interaction that God Almighty establishes among them, and tries to read the narrative events in the light of that interaction. Indicating the purposes and connotations. This study tried to highlight that the Sunni structure is fixed and the pact that unites the novelist and the reader; The novelist arranges the characters' outcomes based on his prior knowledge of the divine reward for each sustained action. The reader knows that God Almighty has well-known habits in treating His creation based on their actions and deeds, so the novelist is expected to tell him the path that each of the characters of the fictional text travels to communicate with its subject, and to achieve what it aspires to.

We have reached a set of results, the most important of which is that the novelist Najib al-Kilani is imbued with Islamic culture, and this was evident through the two paths he drew for the characters of his novel, so that he made the path of tyrants, aggressors and rebels linked to torment and destruction, and the path of benefactors and those committed to God’s guidance linked to victory and empowerment. The result of each of the two paths is a general and steady result, which has been since God Almighty created man and will remain until he inherits the earth and those on it.