The Barqaʿīd Maqāmah: Abū Zayd’s Sight, the Cleansing Ruse and His Escape

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• What food is indicated by rughfānī?
• Who accompanied Abū Zayd?
• What does ʿujālat maknatī suggest?
• Why does Abū Zayd ask whether a third person is present?
• What is meant by mā dūnahā sirrun maḥjūz?
• What first destroys the appearance of blindness?
• The Farqadān are invoked to compare what?
• How does al-Ḥārith react to the discovery of sight?
• What distinguishes taʿāmī from ʿamā?
• What setting is conveyed by al-mawāmī?
• What is luknah in this passage?
• What does luhnah mean here?
• How is al-dahr presented in the first verse?
• What does rushd principally mean?
• What does Abū Zayd admit in the second verse?
• What does yaḥdhū al-fatā ḥadhwa wālidihi mean?
• What key device connects the two verses?
• What does al-mikhdaʿ mean?
• What literary effect does the lengthening cleanser request have?
• What does ẓarf mean in naẓīf al-ẓarf?
• How do al-nāshiq and al-lāmis differ?
• What is a khilālah used for?
• Why compare the toothpick to a weapon and a supple branch?
• What does li- express in li-adraʾa?
• What sound device connects al-mikhdaʿ and yakhdaʿ?
• What does al-Ḥārith discover on returning?
• The Farqadān simile refers to the two eyes.
• Abū Zayd proved that he was permanently blind.
• The cleanser’s description uses both touch and smell.
• Al-Ḥārith catches the two fugitives at the end.