Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 59 | 2023
Research Article | Not Only ravī. The Other Letters of the Rhyme in the Muʿǧam fī maʿāyīr ašʿār al-ʿaǧam by Šams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Qays al-Rāzī

Not Only ravī. The Other Letters of the Rhyme in the Muʿǧam fī maʿāyīr ašʿār al-ʿaǧam by Šams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Qays al-Rāzī

Abstract

In his treatise on Persian literary theory, al-Muʿǧam fī maʿāyīr ašʿār al-ʿaǧam, Šams-i Qays (13th century) claims that a poem without the main rhyming letter (ravī) is not a poem. However, this letter is not the only recurring letter at the end of the lines of a Persian poem. Šams-i Qays discusses eight other letters (ridf, qayd, taʾsīs, daxīl, vaṣl, xurūǧ, mazīd, and nāyira) as he determines the length and the possible patterns of a Persian rhyme (qāfiya). In this paper, I aim to improve our understanding of the linguistic rationale behind the taxonomy of Persian rhyming letters by providing an annotated Italian translation of relevant passages from the Muʿǧam.


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Submitted: Jan. 31, 2023 | Accepted: March 20, 2023 | Published Aug. 29, 2023 | Language: it

Keywords Rhyme • Ḥurūf-i qāfiya • Persian poetry • Šams-i Qays • Persian language

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/008


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