Thresholds

While there is a dependency on some ancestry, there is also an effort to go beyond ancestors in terms of style and poetic meaning or thought in concomitance with transformations that enforce new lifestyles and new ways of expression and thinking. The understanding of adab as a combined effort of learning and refinement and the contributions of critics to understand the field as an entangled discursive space minimize the random application of saraq , theft, and initiate a counter understanding of production whereby inventiveness stands out as a challenge to conservative philology. The consolidation of literary criticism with a terminological arsenal in order to define theft, borrowing, and shared script was not an isolated occurrence. It was part of a mounting library of books on expressions, alfāẓ , and poetic meanings, maʿānī . It is also in line with the rising wave of poetic inventiveness and newness as a literary endeavor to escape the ordeal of an apparent dearth and depletion of expressions.