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Supporting the rebel against the prevailing ideal
نصرة الثائر على المثل السائر
Author: صلاح الدين خليل بن أيبك الصفدي (المتوفى: 764هـ) (d. 764)
About this work
هذا الكتاب "نصرة الثائر على المثل السائر" للصفدي يتناول نقد كتاب "المثل السائر" لابن الأثير، محاولاً دحض ادعاءات ابن الأثير في فضله الأدبي وتفوقه على غيره من الكتاب. يركز الصفدي على مناقشة مفاهيم البلاغة والفصاحة، وينتقد أسلوب ابن الأثير في الإنشاء، مستعرضاً أمثلة من كتابه الأصلي. الكتاب يتناول أيضاً قضايا لغوية وأدبية مثل لون الاستعارة والكناية، ويناقش مسألة مواءمة اللفظ مع المعنى في الإنشاء الأدبي.
Translation
This book, “Supporting the Rebel against the Walking Proverb” by Al-Safadi, deals with criticism of the book “The Walking Proverb” by Ibn Al-Atheer, trying to refute Ibn Al-Atheer’s claims regarding his literary merit and superiority over other writers. Al-Safadi focuses on discussing the concepts of rhetoric and eloquence, and criticizes Ibn al-Atheer’s style of writing, presenting examples from his original book. The book also addresses linguistic and literary issues such as the color of metaphor and metonymy, and discusses the issue of matching pronunciation with meaning in literary composition.
Topics covered
- Your forgiveness, O God
- Start with praise
- Hariri was unable to create what was asked of him
- In the office
- Writer culture
- Does violating grammar harm the meaning?
- Does melody contribute to good speech?
- About the color of the cow in the verse: its color is bright yellow
- Politeness in talking about great people
- Denying the title of Nasser to Sultan Saladin
- Message of Ibn Ziyada al-Baghdadi
- Rhetoric and eloquence
- Defining the meaning of rhetoric and eloquence
- Departments of rhetoric
- Metaphor and metonymy
- Grammarians' explanations
- What the writer and the poet have in common
- How does the established writer benefit?
- From the literary heritage
- Al-Safadi criticizes Ibn al-Atheer in some of his writings
- Ibn al-Atheer's claim of creativity in his letter
- In censure of gray hair
- Discuss an example by Ibn al-Atheer
- Discuss another example of Ibn al-Atheer
- Examples of Ibn al-Atheer’s creation and discussion around them
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