I‘JAZ AL-QUR’AN: ‘ABD AL-QAHIR AL-JURJANI’S (d. 471/1078) THEORY OF NAZM

Al-Jurjani theory of nazm, basically connotes the orderly arrangement of words in discourse in accordance with the rules of grammar, syntactic relationship. What does the concept of nazm has to do in the rules of grammar, vis-à-vis literary theory? In order to gain credence to literary merit, alfaz (words) need to be structured. In al-Jurjani's view, we need to treat ma‘ani with the structure of grammar. This research paper, is going to place emphasizes in a more elaborate way, the syntactic relationships in alfaz and ma‘ani in al-Jurjani's theory of nazm and to address the question of inimitability in literary theory.