The Concept Of Lafz And Ma'na: Ibn Rashiq's Contribution To Literary Criticism

Abstract

The duality in the concept of lafz and ma'na was literary phenomenons, many literary critics of the medieval Islam, have delved into this concept. Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani (d. 456/1063) proposed that Ma'na is the soul and Lafz is the body. The present study is going to have a relook into this concept...