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alusur-7018	Melvin-Koushki, Matthew	Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka’s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light*	2016	72	.pdf	application/pdf	37184	1230	46	Under the rubric of ʿilm al-adab Ibn al-Akfānī gives equal treatment to speech and writing as vehicles of communication, with emphasis on poetry and rhetoric, treating sequentially of lugha, taṣrīf, maʿānī, bayān, badīʿ,ʿarūḍ, qawāfī, naḥw, qawānīn al-kitāba, qawānīn al-qirāʾa and manṭiq (Irshād al-Qāṣid, 22-29). 21. The letter is the enlightening elixir (al-iksīr al-munīr); were a drop of it to strike the vaults of dark bodies that fill the realms of contingency (al-ʿawālim al-imkāniyya), it would forthwith dispel their intrinsic darkness and transform their substance from base to noble, rendering those gross bodies pure light to illumine the dark realms of matter and becoming.108 As Ibn Turka argues, in sum, every level of the letter is a construct of eternally emanated divine light, both ontologically and epistemologically—even speech.	cache/alusur-7018.pdf	txt/alusur-7018.txt