تشابه العلوم الأدبية في اللغات المختلفة: علم العروض على وجه خاص
Similitude of Literary Sciences in Different Languages : Prosody in Particular
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This article describes the fact that literary genres and related sciences have a close connection with each other in different languages of the East and the West. The article attaches great importance to this similarity with special reference to the science of prosody. Various examples from Eastern and Western languages prove this supposition in actual fact. Origination of Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Urdu, and English prosodies is illuminated. Prosodic circles and poetic meters in Arabic have been expounded as they were assumed in Persian and Urdu afterwards. Mere coincident semblance is also noticed. Illustrations for prosodic meters in Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Urdu, English, and Japanese, are provided along with their scansion to find the conformity to the prosodic rules in most of the languages by and large. Also, it has been elucidated that Al-Khalil, to whom the honour of originating the Arabic Prosody is attributed, didn’t envisage it out of nothing (ex nihilo), just like is the case in other human and physical sciences/ disciplines. An examble of rhetoric is also given to illustrate the same fact that most of the sciences have close similarity in different languages, be that by way of influence or is merely a matter of semblance.
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