Iqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating Poetry
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- Which situation is central to the technical definition of iqtibās?
- What does the qualification “lā ʿalā annahu minhu” exclude?
- Why is “God said: fa-ṣabrun jamīl” treated differently from literary iqtibās here?
- What rhetorical effect does the incorporation “kalamḥ al-baṣar aw huwa aqrab” achieve?
- Which Qur’anic passage contains the phrase “kalamḥ al-baṣar aw huwa aqrab”?
- Where is the incorporated wording in the poem “If you resolve to leave us ... fa-ṣabrun jamīl”?
- What two functions coincide in the poetic use of “fa-ṣabrun jamīl”?
- From what source does “shāhat al-wujūh” constitute iqtibās in this section?
- What effect does the new use of “ḥasbunā Allāhu wa niʿma al-wakīl” emphasize?
- What happens to the Hadith expression in “daʿnī wa-wajhuka al-jannatu ḥuffat bi-l-makārih”?
- What adaptation accompanies iqtibās in “I placed my needs in a valley without cultivation”?
- What caution is essential when adapting a Qur’anic phrase slightly?
- What is the defining source for poetic taḍmīn?
- What is true about the amount of poetry that may be used in taḍmīn?
- What is the function of indicating a non-famous incorporated verse?
- Why is an explicit borrowing cue treated differently for a famous hemistich?
- What is “aḍāʿūnī wa-ayyi fatan aḍāʿū” in the later poem?
- What shifts when the famous “aḍāʿūnī” line enters its new poem?
- How does the “aḍāʿūnī” taḍmīn differ from ilmām?
- Why can a phrase such as “as a poet said” help in borrowing unfamiliar verse?
- What is rhetorically useful in the example “aʿdhārahu al-sārī al-ʿajūl tawaqqafā”?
- Why can al-ʿUdhayb and Bāriq create tawriyah?
- If a poem exhibits both taḍmīn and tawriyah, how should it be classified?
- What principle is expressed by “a slight change does not harm taḍmīn”?
- What is modified from “anā ibn Jalā ... taʿrifūnī” to “huwa ibn Jalā ... taʿrifūh”?
- Why does the adapted “ibn Jalā” borrowing remain recognizable?
- What is the principal basis for terms such as istiʿānah, īdāʿ and rafw?
- When several devices may occur together, what is the first analytical step?
- What is the clearest difference in source between iqtibās and taḍmīn?
- A poet takes only an idea in one case but a full earlier hemistich in another. What is the correct contrast?
- Iqtibās occurs only in poetry, never in prose.
- Both Qur’an and Hadith can serve as sources for iqtibās.
- In the poem, “fa-ṣabrun jamīl” meaningfully answers the conditional statement.
- Taḍmīn requires a complete verse; a hemistich or smaller part cannot qualify.
- For an obscure borrowed poem, the textbook requires a cue indicating the borrowing.
- Even a slight change of pronoun necessarily destroys taḍmīn, despite a recognizable source.