LessonsMusāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of QiṣāṣQuiz

«وَالْإِيجَازُ ضَرْبَانِ: إِيجَازُ الْقَصْرِ وَهُوَ مَا لَيْسَ بِحَذْفٍ»
Concision has two forms. The first is compact expression without omission; the other involves omission.

TypeDistinguishing featureAnalytical question
Ījāz al-qaṣrBroad meaning conveyed by a short but intact expressionHow does the wording achieve such breadth?
Ījāz al-ḥadhfAn element is omitted and supplied by contextWhat clue recovers it?

Confusing the two can obscure the distinctive achievement of an example.

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The two kinds of concision

Musāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of Qiṣāṣ

«وَالْإِيجَازُ ضَرْبَانِ: إِيجَازُ الْقَصْرِ وَهُوَ مَا لَيْسَ بِحَذْفٍ»
Concision has two forms. The first is compact expression without omission; the other involves omission.

TypeDistinguishing featureAnalytical question
Ījāz al-qaṣrBroad meaning conveyed by a short but intact expressionHow does the wording achieve such breadth?
Ījāz al-ḥadhfAn element is omitted and supplied by contextWhat clue recovers it?

Confusing the two can obscure the distinctive achievement of an example.