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TAGS: - Metaphors and allegories; Akhbari (Shiite school); Alam-i-mithal (World of images); Hadith; Imams; Mujtahid; Northrop Frye; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Usuli (Shiite school)

Abstract:

Overview of the life of Shaykh Ahmad; his thoughts about the technical rhetorical terms mithál, mathal, and mithl (images), which functioned more as metaphor than simile or parable in the Qur'an and the words of the Imams.

Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality:

Ahmad Ahsá'í, Figuration, and the World of Images

Todd Lawson

published in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory
pp. 236-273

Oxford University Press, 2024

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Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality:

Ahmad Ahsá'í, Figuration, and the World of Images

Todd Lawson

published in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory pp. 236-273

Oxford University Press, 2024

published in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory
pp. 236-273