Critical study of the book fi manahij al-khetabe al-srdi by Umar Eylan

The book "fi manahij al-khetabe al-srdi" by "Umar Eylan" has introduced and explained various theories in structural narratology and reviewed various critical approaches in the text. Using book critique indexes while expressing the book's effectiveness in narratology, the present article aims to review its form and content components as well. It uses a descriptiveanalytical method to examine the content, topics, and discussed issues in this book. Subsequently, in addition to formal critique, the author criticizes its content to clarify this work's effectiveness for Arabic literature scholars. This book refers to various theories and provides useful and extensive information to the reader based on its threefold approaches in narratology, psychology, and sociology. This diversity has its restrictions as, for the sake of brevity, not all aspects of a particular approach and its attainments were addressed. This book is a re-reading of the structuralist approach, but it is merely a description and explanation of theories' practical features and not a comprehensive and accurate critique of them.