What is the distinction between “three disciplines” and the narrower use of “the science of balagha”?
Introduction: Structure, Three Disciplines and Kinds of Preface
- Both always mean exactly the three disciplines
- The first includes Maʿani, Bayan, Badiʿ; the second here concerns Maʿani and Bayan
- The first is only prose rhetoric, the second only rhyme
- Neither includes Maʿani