LessonsVerbal Embellishments: Resembling Endings, Jinas, Sajʿ, and Further DevicesQuiz

Letter transposition can produce incomplete jinas when two words contain the same letters in a different sequence, as in “qās” and “sāq.” Nothing has been added; the existing consonants have been rearranged.

This is not necessarily full backward reading. It concerns word-level transposition. The later independent device called qalb concerns reversible sequences of letters across a whole expression and should be distinguished.

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Jinas al-qalb: letters in a new order

Verbal Embellishments: Resembling Endings, Jinas, Sajʿ, and Further Devices

Letter transposition can produce incomplete jinas when two words contain the same letters in a different sequence, as in “qās” and “sāq.” Nothing has been added; the existing consonants have been rearranged.

This is not necessarily full backward reading. It concerns word-level transposition. The later independent device called qalb concerns reversible sequences of letters across a whole expression and should be distinguished.