Tribune News Network
Doha
QU Press, Qatar University’s (QU) publishing house, released ‘Put Your Feet in Mud’ by Prof Mohamed Ali Mustafa.
The book aims to find a modern approach to heritage reading, criticism, including reassessing our relationship with these concepts. It also opens to the sciences of semantics and explores the characteristics of many Quranic words and structures.
The book addresses many linguistic aspects and analyses them in a unique and unprecedented way to answer some intriguing questions in syntax, morphology and readings.
The book opens the minds of readers to the real importance of investing in the fields of linguistic jurisprudence to produce true knowledge, weaving that knowledge from the available evidence.
The book aims to nurture the readers passions and curiosity, piquing their interest through a flexible, modern and cohesive research methodology that neither denies heritage nor disregards scientific principles, nor belittles entrenched cultural identity.
In addition, it opens to various forms of expression through language, its dialects and the creative bridging of knowledge between them and other arts such as painting, editing, cinematic direction and others.
The author derived the acronym ‘PYFIM’ from the initial letters of the title of the book in English, ‘Put Your Feet in Mud.’ Each word represents a specific value that may appear in some stages as sequential depending on the nature of the discussion, with the preceding or succeeding stage.
These five values are: Probability, yarn, fidelity, impartiality and measuring.
