ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī took center stage in the field of bayān (called as well balāġa) during first half twentieth century thanks, above all, to efforts Muḥammad ʿAbduh and Hellmut Ritter. As similar they are their approach, Ritter came represent two mutually dismissive scholarly traditions with respect Ǧurǧānī science bayān. These apparently divergent traditions, wittingly or unwittingly, co...