Shared Meanings and Specific Meanings in Classical Arabic Criticism

Section: Research Paper
Published
Mar 1, 2023
Pages
1-33

Abstract

This paper discusses meanings and their significance in the context of deliberation and mutuality among Arab critics. Considering early critics efforts to describe and classify meanings, the paper attempts to offer a descriptive paradigm of meanings with shared cognitive dimensions that have a unified mental principle. In the same epistemological features, the peculiarity, novelty, and uniqueness of meaning emerge. Therefore, critics endeavor to classify poetic meanings according to being creative and uncreative, plagiarism and vulgarity, or what is called intertextuality and paraphrasing. Yet, this paper investigates the descriptive characteristics of meaning within the epistemological deliberation among classical critics, and how they view these meanings and classify them according to artistic standards while considering the critical achievement in highlighting the shared, deliberation, and specialization of meanings among poets.

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Theeb Kafafi, M. (2023). Shared Meanings and Specific Meanings in Classical Arabic Criticism. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 53(92), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2023.177804