فَرَأَيْتُ فِي بُهْرَةِ الْحَلْقَةِ
Then I saw, at the very center of the circle.
Buhrat denotes the middle or central part. Ḥalqah is a ring or circle of people assembled together.
The narrator’s attention now narrows from the crowd as a whole to one figure at its center. That figure will drive the next part of the story.
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The Ṣanʿāʾ Maqāmah: The Mysterious Preacher and His Eloquence
فَرَأَيْتُ فِي بُهْرَةِ الْحَلْقَةِ
Then I saw, at the very center of the circle.
Buhrat denotes the middle or central part. Ḥalqah is a ring or circle of people assembled together.
The narrator’s attention now narrows from the crowd as a whole to one figure at its center. That figure will drive the next part of the story.