Saj' () is a form of rhymed prose defined by its relationship to and use of end-rhyme, meter, and parallelism. There are two types of parallelism in saj': iʿtidāl (rhythmical parallelism, meaning "balance") and muwāzana (qualitative metrical parallelism).
Saj' () is a form of rhymed prose defined by its relationship to and use of end-rhyme, meter, and parallelism. There are two types of parallelism in saj': iʿtidāl (rhythmical parallelism, meaning "balance") and muwāzana (qualitative metrical parallelism).
Saj' was the earliest artistic speech in Arabic. It could be found in pre-Islamic Arabia among the kuhhān (the pre-Islamic soothsayers) and in Abyssinia for ecclesiastical poetry and folk songs. One famous composer of saj' was said to have been the bishop of Najran, Quss Ibn Sa'ida al-Iyadi.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).