Levels of pilgrimage in Al-Saraqusti's preaching maqama

Pragmatic theory comes as a modern theory concerned with approaching discourse, analyzing it, and revealing its argumentative positions while communicating with others. It is a theory that studies the laws of the language of discourse and its strategies. Therefore, pilgrims are considered one of the most important topics of pragmatics, and based on this methodology, the study examines two preaching maqamats by Al Sarqisti (d. 538 AH), to reveal the levels of pilgrimage in them, which are the fifth and eighth maqamats among the fifty maqamat collected in his book (Al-Maqamat Al-Zumiyyah), Each of them has its own context despite the unity of the preaching purpose, which contributed to the different levels of pilgrimage between them, In the meantime, an attempt is made to determine the reason for the use of some pilgrimage mechanisms in one Maqamat and not in another, which led to the difference in levels of pilgrimage between them despite the unity of the preaching purpose.
The study relied on Data on new rhetoric, argumentative studies, and their hypotheses to uncover the levels of argumentation in these maqamat, by stopping at the level of logical mechanisms that include non-logical arguments that rely on logical structures such as arguments based on reality. The study also dealt with the level of rhetorical mechanisms, whether based on the science of Bayan, including simile, metaphor and metonymy, or those based on the science of Badiya, such as rhyming, alliteration, collocation and juxtaposition.