Iltifāt and Related Departures from Expected Expression
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- What is the main concern of iltifāt?
- How many basic directional changes among the three persons are possible?
- Which perspective is represented by «أنا»?
- What characterizes the majority account of iltifāt?
- What makes al-Sakkākī’s treatment relatively broader?
- What person shift occurs from «مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ» to «إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ»?
- How do iltifāt and the fronting of «إِيَّاكَ» differ?
- What is the person shift in the ship example?
- Identify the shift from «إِنَّا» to «لِرَبِّكَ».
- What shift occurs between «أَرْسَلَ» and «فَسُقْنَاهُ»?
- Why does the Yā-Sīn passage shift from first person to direct address?
- Do unrelated sentences containing «أنا» and «هو» necessarily show iltifāt?
- What general merit is attributed to iltifāt?
- What specific effect does the shift in al-Fātiḥah have?
- What does «تلقي المخاطب بغير ما يترقب» mean?
- Which aspect is foregrounded in the reply to the question about new moons?
- What does the answer to «ماذا ينفقون» particularly emphasize?
- What makes an unexpected response rhetorically appropriate?
- Why might a future event be expressed with a past-tense form?
- What rhetorical effect does «فَفَزِعَ» have in a future judgment scene?
- Why describe a past event with a present tense?
- What distinguishes tense shift from person shift?
- What is the central operation in qalb?
- Why is «عَرَضْتُ النَّاقَةَ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ» an inversion?
- Is every reversed relation automatically rhetorically excellent qalb?
- How does qalb differ from ordinary reordering?
- What if inversion has no contextual clue and makes no sense?
- What principle connects iltifāt and unexpected address?
- What additional effect comes from fronting «إِيَّاكَ»?
- Which benefit draws the listener into the moral force of a statement?
- What relationship is investigated in the poetic discussion of the color of land?
- Which main heading follows this source section?