Īhām, or the Technique of Double Meaning in Literature: Its Theory and Practice in the Twelfth Century
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DOI: 10.1017/irn.2023.22
Abstract: This article examines the chapter on īhām (literary amphiboly) in Ḥadāʾiq al-Siḥr by Rashīd Vaṭvāṭ (d. 1182). Ḥadāʾiq, a treatise on stylistics with Persian and Arabic examples, is the oldest extant document to define īhām.… read more here.
Keywords: literature theory; double meaning; meaning literature; practice twelfth ... See more keywords