LessonsIqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating PoetryQuiz

وأما التضمين فهو أن يضمن الشعر شيئا من شعر الغير
Taḍmīn is to incorporate something from another person's poetry into one's own verse.

Here al-shiʿr identifies the new genre, while shiʿr al-ghayr identifies the source as someone else's poetry. Neither repeating one's own poem nor borrowing a Quranic phrase satisfies those two conditions in this specific definition.

The borrowed unit may be a whole line, more than a line, a hemistich or a smaller segment. The issue is its fitting incorporation into new verse.

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The defining elements of poetic taḍmīn

Iqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating Poetry

وأما التضمين فهو أن يضمن الشعر شيئا من شعر الغير
Taḍmīn is to incorporate something from another person's poetry into one's own verse.

Here al-shiʿr identifies the new genre, while shiʿr al-ghayr identifies the source as someone else's poetry. Neither repeating one's own poem nor borrowing a Quranic phrase satisfies those two conditions in this specific definition.

The borrowed unit may be a whole line, more than a line, a hemistich or a smaller segment. The issue is its fitting incorporation into new verse.