«ثُمَّ فَتَحَ كَرِيمَتَيْهِ»
Then he opened his two eyes.
When Abū Zayd opens his eyes, the earlier appearance of blindness is overturned. Karīmatayhi is a respectful circumlocution for the two eyes.
The elaborate request for washing supplies becomes another manoeuvre. The episode demonstrates deception through both spoken rhetoric and staged physical condition.
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Comprehensive Revision — Literary and Linguistic Study of Ten Maqāmāt
«ثُمَّ فَتَحَ كَرِيمَتَيْهِ»
Then he opened his two eyes.
When Abū Zayd opens his eyes, the earlier appearance of blindness is overturned. Karīmatayhi is a respectful circumlocution for the two eyes.
The elaborate request for washing supplies becomes another manoeuvre. The episode demonstrates deception through both spoken rhetoric and staged physical condition.