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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

إلا أنّ تعديله شخصية الأشخاص وتحريفه الرواية هذا التحريف - ألا يدلّ على خضوعه لحكم مزاجه الشرقي الذي دفعه إلى تصوير الكمال (و) الإنساني والمثل الأعلى للحبّ الروحاني ،

ʔillā ʔanna taʕdīla-hū šaḫṣiyyaẗ^a ’l-ʔašḫāṣ wa-taḥrīfa-hū ’l-riwāyaẗ hāḏā ’l-taḥrīf^a – ʔa-lā yadull^u ʕalà ḫuḍūʕi-hī li-ḥukmⁱ mazāǧi-hī ’l-šarqī allaḏī dafaʕa-hū ʔilà taṣwīr al-kamāl al-ʔinsānī wa’l-maṯal(muṯul?) al-ʔaʕlà lil-ḥubb al-rūḥānī,

But isn’t the fact that he modifies the personality of the characters¹ and makes heavy changes to the plot an indication of his submission to the regime of his oriental temperament which urges him to depict [nothing but] human [p. vi] perfection and the highest ideals of spiritual love?

1. Or: the main character? – šaḫṣiyyat al-ʔašḫāṣ, lit. the character of the characters.

AR: taʕdīlʔadab, šaḫṣiyyaẗ, ʔašḫāṣ, taḥrīf, riwāyaẗ, dalla (dalāl), ḫuḍūʕ, ḥukm, mazāǧ, šarqī, taṣwīr, kamāl
EN: oriental temperament

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