🔤Literature & Rhetoric
Strange warnings about the wonders of similes
غرائب التنبيهات على عجائب التشبيهات
Author: علي بن ظافر الأزدي المصري (المتوفى: 613هـ) (d. 613)
About this work
هذا الكتاب "غرائب التنبيهات على عجائب التشبيهات" لمؤلفه ابن ظافر الأزدي يتناول موضوعات الأدب والبلاغة، مركزاً على فن التشبيه في الشعر العربي. يتناول الكتاب تشبيهات مختلفة لظواهر طبيعية كالأجرام السماوية والقمر والنجوم، كما يدرس تشبيهات أخرى لأشياء مثل الخمر وقوس قزح والثلج والبرق. يهدف الكتاب إلى استعراض غرابة وعجائب التشبيهات الشعرية وكيفية استخدامها في الأدب العربي.
Translation
This book, “Gharaibat Al-Nabihat Ala-Gharaibat Al-Aja’ibahat Al-Aja’ibahat” by Ibn Dhafer Al-Azdi, deals with topics of literature and rhetoric, focusing on the art of similes in Arabic poetry. The book discusses various analogies for natural phenomena, such as celestial bodies, the moon, and stars, and also studies other analogies for things such as wine, rainbows, snow, and lightning. The book aims to review the strangeness and wonders of poetic similes and how to use them in Arabic literature.
Topics covered
- the introduction
- May God bless our master Muhammad
- Chapter one
- Simulation of upper bodies
- It contains ten chapters
- Chapter one
- In mentioning the analogy of the crescent moon
- Chapter Two
- Likening it to the Pleiades and other stars
- Chapter Three
- Similarity when it is fair, perfect, and in different situations
- Chapter Four
- Description of the wine
- It is related to describing the moon and its light on the water
- Chapter Five
- An analogy to the light of a full moon on water
- Related to mentioning is the analogy of the light of the full moon on water
- He mentioned the recommended analogy of sunlight and a saddle
- Chapter Six
- Chandelier analogy
- As was said in the analogy of the chandelier
- Chapter Seven
- What was said about other stars is similarity
- Chapter Eight
- What was said in the analogy of the rainbow, snow, lightning and clouds
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