Hijāʾ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Hijāʾ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Gelder, Geert Jan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061900
Doc. NO	:	ALei2297
Main Entry	:	van Gelder, Geert Jan
Title & Author	:	Hijāʾ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Gelder, Geert Jan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,918 words)
Abstract	:	Hijāʾ (invective, lampoon, satire) is one of the principal modes or genres of traditional Arabic poetry; it is synonymous with the less frequent hajw (the preferred term in Persian), muhājāt , and tahājī (the last-mentioned specifically meaning “mutual lampooning”), all derived from the same Arabic root. Invective in prose or sajʿ (rhyming prose) is not altogether absent but is rarely called hijāʾ . The original sense of the word may have been “murmuring,” in particular “casting a spell”; the word hijāʾ also means “orthography” (cf. English “spell”). This would seem to
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2297.pdf