Majāz 'Aqlī "Intellectual trope" and the description of wine in a poem by Abū Dhu'ayb Al-hudhalī

Ali Ahmad Hussein

doi:10.1556/062.2018.71.4.4

Majāz 'Aqlī "Intellectual trope" and the description of wine in a poem by Abū Dhu'ayb Al-hudhalī

Ali Ahmad Hussein

Department of Arabic Language and Literature

University of Haifa

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Abstract

An important rhetorical figure has been called the majäz 'aqlï (lit. "intellectual trope") by some classical rhetoricians, mainly by 'Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī (d. 471/1078). Despite its importance, which will be clarified below, the intellectual trope has been ignored in modern research in comparison to other rhetorical figures such as the metaphor and simile which are frequently in the spotlight. In this paper, I will analyse the notion of the majäz 'aqlï as used by 'Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī who was the first rhetorician to deal with this figure of speech in detail; then I will discuss its semantic aspects in classical Arabic poetry as manifested in an episode on wine composed by Abū Dhu'ayb al-Hudhalī (d. 28/649).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	429-442
Number of pages	14
Journal	Acta Orientalia
Volume	71
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2018.71.4.4
State	Published - Dec 2018

Keywords

'Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī
Abū Dhu'ayb al-Hudhalī
Arabic rhetoric
Asrär al-balägha
Classical Arabic poetry
Intellectual trope
Ithbät
Linguistic trope
Majäz aqlï
Majäz lughawï
Metaphor
Wine Poetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
History
Literature and Literary Theory

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Majāz 'Aqlī "Intellectual trope" and the description of wine in a poem by Abū Dhu'ayb Al-hudhalī

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