Critical Reading of the book: Function and functionalism in Arabic rhetoric

Critical analysis of different books, if in accordance with scientific principles, is a desirable and valuable activity. In the light of critical thinking and relying on scientific principles and foundations, growth and development will be achieved in various fields. Accordingly, the critical analysis of the book "Function and functionalism in Arabic rhetoric" by Alireza Mohammad Rezaei and Mehran Gholamalizadeh through close reading and adaptation to Jacobsen's theory and with the aim of providing a correct and useful critique in the light of cash and linguistic sources, Has been selected as the main issue of this research. Despite writing the book from the dissertation, this work has not benefited much from the advantages of being a dissertation and its professors and judges.The research findings show that the contents of the book are manifestations of Jacobsen's theory of linguistic communication in the Qur'an and some poetry and prose; Jacobsen himself is a great absentee of the form and content of the book. Although, the authors sought to present a new form of Arabic linguistic and rhetorical research; In practice and in adapting the examples to the theory, explanation and definition of different functions using reliable sources, they have acted in a rudimentary and superficial way and have not achieved much success.