First dinarSecond dinarBrightness and advantageDuplicity and temptationSocial influenceDamaged relationshipsThe coin is welcomedThe coin is told to depart
The subject is the same object, but the rhetorical task changes. The poet succeeds by selecting fitting images, diction and rhyme for opposed positions.
The reader need not regard the two pieces as literal reports wholly compatible in every proposition. They are consciously framed literary perspectives of praise and satire.
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The Dīnārī Maqāmah: The Second Dinar and Abū Zayd’s Unmasking
First dinarSecond dinarBrightness and advantageDuplicity and temptationSocial influenceDamaged relationshipsThe coin is welcomedThe coin is told to depart
The subject is the same object, but the rhetorical task changes. The poet succeeds by selecting fitting images, diction and rhyme for opposed positions.
The reader need not regard the two pieces as literal reports wholly compatible in every proposition. They are consciously framed literary perspectives of praise and satire.