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According to the approach of discourse analysis, drawing on the investment of the success that linguistics achieved in the field of studying the language, this study is based on the examination of linguistic and stylistic mechanisms that control the "power"manifestations in the intellectual discourse in addition to foreign disorders that hide behind the reasons of that authority and what could be succeeded by the authoritarian discourse, for the recipient, as the problems that oppose the objectives of the intellectual which is supposed to be enlightening. The framework of this study lies on the book of Ḫawatir Muṣaraḥa", which was issued in the wake of the early Saudi Covenant, by the Saudi writer Mohammed Hassan Awwad, to highlight the authoritarian style which is dominant on the language of his enlightening reformist discourse for the Saudi society at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]