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dc.title	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
dc.contributor.author	Dal Bianco Alessia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2023/1/non-solo-ravi-le-altre-lettere-della-rima-nel-muga/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 59 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-08-29
dc.dateAccepted	2023-03-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-01-31
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Persian language
dc.subject	Persian poetry
dc.subject	Rhyme
dc.subject	Šams-i Qays
dc.subject	Ḥurūf-i qāfiya

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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

Alessia Dal Bianco Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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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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Aug. 29, 2023

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March 20, 2023

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Jan. 31, 2023

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

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