Md. Nor Abdullah

Doi:10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p517 Now the situation studies in Arabic Rhetoric in Malaysia, especially in the field of Islamic studies such as misinterpretation of the Quran were less emphasized. This problem may stem from a lack of knowledge disclosure Rhetoric since in school, higher education and society in general. Learning Arabic is mostly just focused on knowledge of grammar and morphology without involving Rhetoric. Therefore, the objective of this study is to make a review of the early history of the development of pre-Islamic Rhetoric again until the eighth century as exposure to entice the attention of the community to Arabic Rhetoric and explain its significance. Library research method chosen to obtain the necessary data from the book of Arabic Rhetoric tradition. As a result, it is evident that the persistence of the scholars of the past do a research field with many other Arab Rhetoric inject motivation to researchers now. Leading works by al-Jurjani has opened a new dimension to the theory of Arabic Rhetoric al-Nazm (diction is the choice of words and sentence patterns appropriate to the situation). Its importance is very helpful to understand the Quran better