THE POSITION OF THE RECIPIENT IN THE BOOK “THE MIRACLE OF THE QUR’AN” BY AL-BAQLANI

The recipient/reader occupied a wide space in Al-Baqlani’s critical viewpoint. Where he attended as a case of questioning, which leads to a deepening of understanding and the consolidation of its pillars, within his talk about the miraculousness of the Noble Qur’an, in an attempt to enable this reader to understand the issues of miraculousness. If the author has the authority to say, which has an effective rhetorical function, then the reader/recipient according to Al-Baqlani is not a passive reader, but rather a productive critic, exchanging reading with the author, and participating in the analysis of the discourse and the production of knowledge, through his actual or implicit presence, participating with him in the various stages of text creation. The research raises a number of questions, including: -Can the recipient be considered an element of the literary text in ancient critical theories? - What is the space occupied by the implicit reader in the critical viewpoint of Al-Baqlani? - Is it possible to talk about an experienced active reader through the questioning cases that Al-Baqlani raised in his book? Based on the foregoing, a number of goals can be set: Researching the image of the reader/recipient in Al-Baqlani's critical thought. - Seeking to prove the presence of this reader through the various stages of text creativity. The research adopts the descriptive approach, which takes the analysis as a mechanism for it to reveal Al-Baqlani's view of the recipient