ʿIlm al-Bayān and the Foundations of Tashbīh: Signification, Terms and Resemblance
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- What is central to the definition of ʿilm al-bayān?
- What does muṭābaqah signify?
- A word for human indicating the constituent “living being” illustrates which relation?
- What specifically characterizes meaning reached through iltizām?
- What condition does the text place on iltizām?
- If an implication is intended and context blocks the literal sense, how is it classified here?
- Which possibility is retained in the initial account of kināyah?
- What is the mushabbah bih in “Zayd is brave like a lion”?
- What is the point of resemblance in the same comparison?
- Which are the two terms of a simile?
- Must a comparison marker always be explicitly stated?
- What kind of shared point is redness in “The face is red like a rose”?
- What is correct about “Knowledge guides like light”?
- Which restriction on sensory resemblance is incorrect?
- The quality of courage is normally classified as what kind of shared point?
- Which statement about an imagined composite sensory image is correct?
- What is the best guiding question when identifying wajh al-shabah?
- Why does resemblance of two whole scenes differ from resemblance in a single color?
- What is the central shared feature in the dust-and-swords verse?
- What makes the Pleiades resemble a blossoming cluster?
- What added feature makes “the sun like a mirror in a trembling hand” distinctive?
- Does having two sensory terms force the shared point itself to be sensory?
- Why is classifying a simile solely from its marker inadequate?
- Does a chance association that lacks necessity establish technical iltizām?
- How does an internal definitional component differ from an external implication?
- According to the source definition, what does tashbīh indicate?
- What is the most complete analysis of a composite simile?
- In taḍammun every accidental attribute becomes an internal component of a term.
- A simile can have two sensory terms but a conceptual point of resemblance.
- A composite point depends on the organization of its elements, not simply their number.
- A simile does not require the compared terms to share every attribute.