The idiomatic shift in the cultural criticism project of Abdullah Al-Ghadami: An attempt to establish an alternative Arabic critical method

Abstract

Contemporary Arab criticism was often accused, and it was labeled as borrowed criticism, it is often an "identical or different" version of Western criticism, because it was unable to provide cognitive alternatives, applied mechanisms, and procedural tools that distinguish him from Western critical studies, to converge the Arabic text according to the requirements of the Arab cultural critical methodology. Thus, Abdullah Al-Ghadami’s attempt, through his cultural criticism project, came to try to provide a “shift” at the level of term and concept. We are trying to investigate whether this terminological shift is purely Arabic or is it merely "placed in the local environment" of the Western term. We concluded that it is a mixture between ancient Arabic rhetoric and an attempt to modernize and renew it.