Analysis of Paradoxical Industry in Ibn al-Farid's Ode (the Great Taiyyah)

Defamiliarization, the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar, is the main function of artistic literature. Paradox is one of its techniques. Paradox is used either syntactically or semantically. Ibn al-Farid was a mystic Sufi poet gifted by mystical perceptions in addition to his poetic talents. Although he enjoyed a high quality interpretation capability, he found paradoxical techniques the best and the closest mystical experiences. Defining paradoxical techniques and showing their literary and rhetoric values, the authors in present study, try to introduce paradoxicals analytically in Ibn al-Farid's Ode (the Great Taiyyah).