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أساس البلاغة

أساس البلاغة

Al-Zamakhshari's Asas al-Balagha — a large lexicon of figurative usage and rhetorical expression ordered like al-Mughrib; 'a pillar of the literary art, indeed its foundation' 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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A book by al-Zamakhshari, who died in 538 AH. Hajji Khalifa describes it as large in size and great in content, and as one of the pillars of the art of literature, indeed its foundation. 1

It treats linguistic metaphors, literary qualities and the expressions of eloquent writers, and it arranges its material in the manner of "Al-Maghrib". 1

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الزمخشري

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  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.), p. 375-376
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islam.museum contributors. “أساس البلاغة”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/asas-al-balagha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

الزمخشري

Mahmud b. 'Umar al-Zamakhshari, the uncontested imam of tafsir, hadith, grammar and bayan — openly Mu'tazili, announcing himself at doors as 'Abu l-Qasim the Mu'tazili'; 'Jar Allah' for his years at Mecca; he walked on a wooden socket after losing a leg, carrying written attestations so none would think it cut for crime, and told al-Damaghani the cause was his mother's curse over a tethered sparrow.