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Ali Ahmad Hussein University of Haifa, Mount. Carmel 3498838/ 199 Abba Khoushy Ave. Haifa, Israel

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An important rhetorical figure has been called the majāz ῾aqlī (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 majāz ῾aqlī 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).

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  • ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān (2005): Dalāʾil al-iʿjāz. Ed. Maḥmūd Mu- ḥammad Shākir. Cairo, Maktabat al-Khānjī.

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  • Bräunlich, Erich (1929): Abū Ḏuʾaib-Studien. Der Islam Vol. 8, pp. 123.

  • Gelder, van, Geert Jan (2012): Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.

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  • Heinrichs, Wolfhart (1977): The Hand of the Northwind: Opinions on Metaphor and the Early Meaning of Isti῾āra in Arabic Poetics. Wiesbaden, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GMBH.

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  • Heinrichs, Wolfhart (1984): On the Genesis of the Ḥaqīqa-Majāz Dichotomy. Studia Islamica Vol. 8, pp. 111140.

  • Heinrichs, Wolfhart (1991–1992): Contacts Between Scriptural Hermeneutics and Literary Theory in Islam: The Case of Majāz. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften Vol. 8, pp. 253284.

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  • Hell, Joseph (1926): Der Diwan des Abū Ḏuʾaib. Hannover, Heinz Lafaire.

  • Ḥusayn, ῾Alī Aḥmad (2002): Ash-Shakl wa-l-maḍmūn fī sh-shi῾r al-῾arabī l-qadīm: dirāsat alma῾ānī wa-l-mabānī fī ash῾ār Sā῾ida b. Ju᾿ayya wa-Abī Dhu᾿ayb al-Hudhaliyyayn. Ph.D. Dissertation. Haifa, University of Haifa.

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  • Hussein, Ali Ahmad (2015a): The Rhetorical Fabric of the Traditional Arabic Qaṣīda in Its Formative Stages: A Comparative Study of the Rhetoric in Two Traditional Poems by ῾Alqama l-Faḥl and Bashshār b. Burd. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag.

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  • Hussein, Ali Ahmad (2015b): The Rhetoric of Hudhalī Wine Poetry. Oriens Vol. 8, pp. 153.

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  • Meisami, Julie Scott (2003): Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Poetry: Orient Pearls. London–New York, Routledge Curzon.

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  • Noy, Avigail (2016): The Emergence of ῾Ilm al-Bayān: Classical Arabic Literary Theory in the Arabic East in the 7th/13th Century. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University.

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  • Reinert, Benedikt : Madjāz: In Arabic Literature. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd edition. Vol. 8, pp. 10251026.

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