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...

the implication of transposition in the structure of positive and negative sentences has been studied from the point of abd al-qāhir al-jurjānī's view in present essay. transposition is a rhetorical subject being discussed in generative-transformative grammar. jurjānī believed that words set in order in a sentence on the basis of their meanings, and emphasized that if the order of words in...

mystical texts are the most important texts have been set to convey epistemic teachings and to influence the audiences concerned with awareness and esoteric training.  therefore it seems that specific techniques have been used in rhetoric to fulfill this objective. according to the style of speech in mystical texts, they can be considered as rhetoricals. reviewing the concept of rhetoric and it...

manuscript no. 3447 in national library of tabriz is a persian treatise which covers arithmetic, geometry, algebra, hayʾa and the topic of “masses and distances. the redaction of the text has been finished in 670ah/1271ad but we don’t know anything about the author of the treatise. in the two first chapters of his treatise (on arithmetic) the unknown author draws upon ʿabd al-qāhir al-baghdādī’...