RT Article
T1 Le lieu de l’abus: poésie et taḫyīl chez ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī (m. 471/1078)
JF Arabica
VO 66
IS 6
SP 621
OP 650
A1 Bertrand, Loïc
LA French
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/169865006X
AB This article aims to determine the specificity of the notion of taḫyīl in ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī’s (d. 471/1078) work. We will attempt to define this rhetorical device and explain the rhetorician’s interest in it. Taḫyīl consists in taking a word or sentence used in a figurative sense, in its literal sense. Although this definition is well-known, it remains uncertain in many respects (what is its decisive criteria? Is it a figure?). To answer these questions, it is necessary to take into account the ethico-rhetorical frame of the question of the taḫyīl in al-Ǧurǧānī’s work. It is first determined as a rhetorical misuse resulting from a deceptive syllogism, and then as a specificity of poetry: indeed, taḫyīl is not to be blamed only in poetry. We will show that taḫyīl should not be considered as a figure but as a topos (literally a “place,” in Aristotelian rhetoric) used to overemphasize one’s statement, i.e. to provide an excess of the assertion (mubālaġa fī l-iṯbāt).
K1 Asrār al-balāġa
K1 Taḫyīl
K1 Éthique
K1 šiʿr
K1 ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī
K1 ʿilm al-bayān
K1 ḫaṭāba
K1 abus
K1 balāġa
K1 Ethics
K1 Hyperbole
K1 kināya
K1 lieu
K1 Poésie
K1 Poetry
K1 Rhétorique
K1 Rhetoric
K1 Topos
DO 10.1163/15700585-12341537