LessonsSimple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic DivisionsQuiz

المنقول الشرعي باعتبار كونه أرباب الشرع
Religious-legal transfer is established through the terminology of religious law.

“Ṣalāh” is linked with supplication in its earlier lexical sense, but in legal-religious usage it names a specified act of worship with defined elements. The term acquires an established technical referent.

The book also gives the grammatical term “ism.” Its treatment as a word with an independently intelligible meaning not inherently attached to a tense is a specialist usage; the original lexical history of the word is distinct.

The first illustrates legal-religious transfer, the second transfer through a technical discipline.

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Religious-legal and technical transfer

Simple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic Divisions

المنقول الشرعي باعتبار كونه أرباب الشرع
Religious-legal transfer is established through the terminology of religious law.

“Ṣalāh” is linked with supplication in its earlier lexical sense, but in legal-religious usage it names a specified act of worship with defined elements. The term acquires an established technical referent.

The book also gives the grammatical term “ism.” Its treatment as a word with an independently intelligible meaning not inherently attached to a tense is a specialist usage; the original lexical history of the word is distinct.

The first illustrates legal-religious transfer, the second transfer through a technical discipline.