TY  - CHAP
ID  - 6691
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/lawson_metaphorical_literalism_ahsai
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Ahmad Ahsá'í, Figuration, and the World of Images
T2  - Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory
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A1  - Lawson,Todd
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Y1  - 2024
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SP  - 236
EP  - 273
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PB  - Oxford University Press
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M3  - Articles
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LA  - English
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AB  - Overview of the life of Shaykh Ahmad; his thoughts about the technical rhetorical terms mithál, mathal, and mithl (images), which  functioned more as metaphor than simile or parable in the Qur'an and the words of the Imams.
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KW  - Akhbari (Shiite school)
KW  - Alam-i-Mithal (World of images)
KW  - Hadith
KW  - Imams
KW  - Metaphors and allegories
KW  - Mujtahid
KW  - Northrop Frye
KW  - Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i
KW  - Shaykhism
KW  - Shia Islam (Shiism)
KW  - Usuli (Shiite school)
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