Alavi’s Ethics in Children Literature: Analysis of Gholamreza Layeghi’s Nahj al-Balaghah for Children (2023)

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1 Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor of Islamic Sciences and Theology, Department of Quran and Nahj Albalagheh, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30465/alavi.2025.51400.2708
Abstract
Children Didactic Literature is rooted in moral teachings of ancient literary texts and utilizes various tools such as picture books for prosperity of young generation and improving their behaviors. Maria Nikolajeva, the prominent Russian theorist, believes in dynamism of the relationship between iconic and conventional signs (pictures and words). She asserts that the interaction between these signs leads into new creations in the vast domain of Children Literature. This study aims at analyzing the interplay of pictures with text in Layeghi’s Nahj al-Balaghah for Children (2023) on the basis of Nikolajeva’s theory in order to determine the role of these signs in refelcting Alavi’s Ethics. In this essay, analysis of data is done through the method of descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS25 software. The frequencies as well as the percentages of moral teaching components and the relationship between text and pictures are determined through Chi-square results. The findings reveal that the component of “Insights” has the higher frequency as compared to the other moral aspects. As the relationship between pictures and texts is concerned, the “symmetrical” structure has the highest frequency as compared with “completion”, “expansion” and “contrastive” ones. To conclude, the selected text needs to get revised for creating dynamic relationships between text and pictures in the way of familiarizing the young generation with Alavi’s lifestyle.

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