Category:Sentence Construction & Syntactical Stylistics (‘ilm al-ma‘ānī)

    From The Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric
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    The rules of Arabic grammar dictate the normal syntax of Arabic constructions. The communicator must depart from the expected grammatical syntax ((ikhrāj al-kalām ʿalā khilāf muqtaḍā al-ẓāhir)) in order to exert a rhetoric effect, emphasis, or nuance.[1]

    References

    1. Muhammad Abdel Haleem, ‘Rhetorical Devices and Stylistic Features of Qur’anic Grammar’, The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, ed. Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 333, ISBN 9780199698646. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.013.22



     

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