The Marāghah Maqāmah: Classical and Contemporary Eloquence

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• Where does the sixth maqāmah open?
• What does naẓar mean in “dīwān al-naẓar”?
• What does “fursān” evoke in “fursān al-barāʿah”?
• What does al-yarāʿah represent here?
• What does refining composition imply?
• What is the grammatical effect of lam in “lam yabqa”?
• What is the metaphorical sense of “risālah ʿadhrāʾ”?
• What does “like dependants on the ancients” criticize?
• Why is Suḥbān ibn Wāʾil mentioned?
• What does the description of the seated kahl establish?
• How is the elder’s dissent first conveyed?
• What image do nibāl / niḍāl create?
• What is depicted by “rakadat al-zaʿāziʿ”?
• What is the tone of “laqad jiʾtum shayʾan iddan”?
• What does “al-ʿiẓām al-rufāt” criticize?
• What is wrong in “ghamaṣtum jīlakum”?
• Who are addressed as “jahābidhat al-naqd”?
• Which is the sounder standard for judging literary merit?
• What are “al-maʿānī al-maṭrūqah”?
• What distinction does taqādum / taqaddum draw?
• What quality does “al-ʿibārāt al-muhadhdhabah” indicate?
• What device is foregrounded in “al-asājīʿ al-mustamlaḥah”?
• What directly counters the assembly in “wa-innī la-aʿrifu al-ān”?
• How do ʿabbara and ḥabbara relate?
• What is praised in “idhā awjaza aʿjaza”?
• What does al-ṣafāh suggest in the final challenge?
• At first, the assembly agrees that great masters of composition no longer remain.
• The elder argues that all works by earlier writers are worthless.
• The pairs ashaba/adhhaba and awjaza/aʿjaza praise mastery of both expansion and brevity.
• By the end of this level the council has already completed the unnamed writer’s test.