Philosophical Meanings in Abu al-‘Alā’ al-Ma‘arrī’s Al-Luzūmiyyāt: A Pragmatic Analysis

This study examines the philosophical meanings presented in selected passages attributed to Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Al-Luzūmiyyāt through a pragmatic approach. Using qualitative library research, the analysis centres on the seven quoted passages presented in the Findings and their interpretation in relation to rationality, ethical responsibility, freedom of thought, and human existence. Austin’s distinction between locution, illocution, and perlocution is combined with Searle’s account of illocutionary force to clarify the relationship between literal meaning and communicative function. The reported thematic readings connect rational judgment with awareness of human limitation, humility with social responsibility, and self-reliance with reflective independence. The Discussion explains how advice, invitation, criticism, and warning may be supported by grammatical and contextual evidence, while distinguishing these functions from sentence form. It also qualifies the existential interpretation and treats proposed reader effects as perlocutionary potentials, since no reception data were collected. Conclusions are bounded by purposive selection, the uncertainty of some textual and translation attributions, and the difference between a poetic speaker and the historical author. The contribution lies in connecting the reported philosophical readings to literary communication without claiming thematic prevalence throughout the collection or demonstrated changes in readers.