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Negotiating Arabic and Persian: Rhetorical Adaptation and Autonomy in Persian Literary Criticism

Abstract This article reframes the traditional view of Persian rhetoric as merely a derivative of Arabic tradition by examining its development through four key manuals: Muhammad ibn ʿUmar Rādūyānī’s Tarjumān al-Balāgha, Rashīd al-Dīn Vatvāt’s Hadāʾiq al-Sihr, Shams-i Qays-i Rāzī’s al-Muʿjam, and Sayf-i Jām-i Hiravī’s Jāmiʿ al-Sanāyiʿ. It is an exploration of the historical and cultural contexts in which these works…

picked 11 Aug 2026

Reference · Wikidata

Medieval imagination and memory

book chapter in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (2005)

picked 13 Aug 2026

Book · DOAB

In Search of the Culprit

Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This volume sets new standards by applying current theoretical approaches to the question of concepts of authorship in medieval and early modern literature. The basic thesis is that authorship is a narratological function rather…

picked 12 Aug 2026

Full text · Open Library

Medieval literary criticismMedieval literary criticism
cover via Open Library
picked 12 Aug 2026

Image · DPLA

Review for Religious - Issue 30.2 (March 1971)Review for Religious - Issue 30.2 (March 1971)

Issue 30.2 of the Review for Religious, 1971.

Saint Louis University, via DPLA
picked 12 Aug 2026
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