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    		•  Bergen Studies on the Middle East and Africa : 2

    Herbjørn Jenssen:

    The Subtleties and Secrets of the Arabic Language

    Preliminary Investigations into al-Qazwini's Talkhis al-miftah

     

     

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    Contents

    1. The ilm al-balagha in Western scholarship (1)

    2. Al-Qazwini and his time (14)
      • The madrasa system and the textbook genres (20)
      • The language that was Arabic (27)

    3. The Talkhis: An overview (32)

    4. Grammar, Logic, and the 'ilm al-ma'ani (46)

    5. 'Ilm al-ma'ani I: The utterance (65)
      • The three parts of the utterance: How the 'modes' (ahwal) interact with the 'situation' (hal) (75)

    6. 'Ilm al-ma'ani II: qasr, insha' and wasl (99)
      • Restriction (qasr): Statement and implication (99)
      • Performatives (insha'): Form and function (108)
      • Conjunction and Disjunction: The interaction between sentences (116)
      • Brevity, Lengthiness and Balanced length: Precision versus Efficiency (126)

    7. Conclusions (131)
      • The science of meanings (131)
      • The science of eloquence (135)

      Bibliography (140)

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    Publication date: Already published 1998
    x, 146 pp.; £ 22. ISBN 185065-307-0

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