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Abu Tammam And The Poetics Of The 'Abbasid Age

by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

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 Foremost among the poetic accomplishments of the "Abbasid age was the sudden flowering of a highly rhetorical and strikingly modern style of poetry , termed "badi'." It found its most radical and controversial exponent in the celebrated panegyrist to the courts of al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim, Abu Tammam Habib ibn Aws Al- Ta'i.The present study offers a reevaluation of the Arabic literary dispute over Abu Tammam and badi'. It then proposes a redefinition of his diwan and of his major anthology, the Hamasah, as a metapoesis that served to decode the poetic tradition of the pre-Islamic desert for the Islamic 'Abasid caliph and his urbane and urban courtiers and subjects, and conversely, to encode contemporary Arab-Islamic political experiences in classical form.This book is extensively illustrated with original translations.
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Muhammad In The Modern Egyptian Popular Ballad

by Kamal Abdel-Malek

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 This volume is a fascinating, interpretative study of the life of the Prophet Muhammad as depicted in the repertoire of fifty-one contemporary Egyptian singers. The repertoire is extremely diverse and ranges from narrative ballads, classical odes, and Qur'anic chantings, to melodies of the secular songs of well-known Egyptian singers. The 'people's' Muhammad appears as both a commanding figure, empowered by the supernatural, and a touchingly vulnerable human being, and provides this study with excellent material for its discussion of a subject that has not received much serious scholarly attention to date.
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Qasida Poetry In Islamic Asia And Africa - 2. Eulogy'S Bounty, Meaning'S Abundance. An Anthology

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 The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
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Qasida Poetry In Islamic Asia And Africa - 1. Classical Traditions & Modern Meanings

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 The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
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Voices From The Desert - Glossary, Indices, And List Of Recordings

by Marcel Kurpershoek

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 Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek's Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994.In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. He also discusses some of the striking features of the traditions collected in these volumes, and their significance within the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal system stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands.An Introduction is followed by a consolidated Glossary, comprising all data accumulated and integrated from the glossaries of the previous four volumes. This elaborate glossary not only refers to the transcribed original texts in Volumes 1-4, but it has also been extended with many examples originating from corresponding Classical Arabic vocabulary, and additional Western sources.Also included are the three indispensable indices to the complete Corpus: the Index of Subjects, the Index of Tribal Names and the Index of Proper Names. A List of Recordings completes this volume. The original recordings of the poets and transmitters, in the order of the published text with a description of the tracks' contents, can be downloaded as MP3 files from Brill's web site at https://brill.com/page/kurpershoek.
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Postcolonial Arabic Novel - Debating Ambivalence

by Muhsin Al-Musawi

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 This is the first study of its kind to tackle the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. In ten chapters, a lengthy preface and an extensive bibliography, the author discusses and questions a large number of novels that demonstrate cultural diversity and richness in the Arab World. Using current methodologies and discourse analysis, the author highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, nationalism, gender and class demarcations, and micro-politics. With this intention, the book locates Arabic narrative in the mainstream of world literature, and establishes the modern Arabic novel in the contemporary literary critical world of postcolonial studies. The author's lucid style and thorough knowledge of the field should recommend the book to students and scholars alike, as it comes in time to meet the needs of the academy for solid writing on Islam and the Arabs.
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'Ara'Is Al-Majalis Fi Qisas Al-Anbiya' Or &Quote;Lives Of The Prophets&Quote; - As Recounted By Abu Ishaq Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Al-Tha'Labi

by William M. Brinner

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 These 11th-century tales, written in many different languages and well known throughout the Muslim world, have been read and studied through the years. This is, however, the first complete translation of the Arabic text into English, from the story of the creation of the world to the time just before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the revelation of Islam. It includes tales of prophets who are Biblical figures, but also of others not considered prophets in other traditions, and contains tales too like The Thousand and One Nights, with no prophetic content. In the Islamic world, this work has been and is still read and enjoyed, both as a source of religious study and for simple pleasure.
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De L'Enfant Au Fils - Essai Sur La Filiation Dans Les Mille Et Une Nuits

by Abdellah Bounfour

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 Cet ouvrage montre que la filiation par le nom et l'heritage a, dans le monde arabe et musulman, une autre dimension plus fondamentale sinon fondatrice, la filiation symbolique ou le principe du pere.Le conte-cadre met en scene un conflit entre deux freres sur l'origine de la fratrie et, par consequent, de la filiation: est-elle maternelle ou paternelle? Deux contes montrent que la parole vivante est l'espace ou se fonde le principe du pere en tant que principe de vie pour le sujet. Des qu'il y accede, cette parole le delie de la mort, particulierement celle liee au noeud oedipien (inceste-parricide-infanticide). Enfin, acceder a cette parole n'est pas chose aisee. L'echec vient de l'equivocite de la parole laquelle conduit a la perversion. La reussite repose le plus souvent, non sur l'amour, mais sur le savoir, un savoir incomplet.
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Poetry Of Ibn Khafajah - A Literary Analysis

by Magda M. Al-Nowaihi

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 This study is an attempt to identify and describe the distinctive features of the poetic style of the acclaimed medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Khafaajah, who has been credited with starting a new school of poetry, in Andalus and elsewhere.It offers a close reading of his poetry, concentrating on the three basic elements of style - imagery, rhetorical devices, and structural patterns. It shows how Ibn Khafajah creatively uses the poetic tradition available to him to form new images and scenes, create multi-layered poems, and bestow different levels of unity and coherence on his poems.The study demonstrates some of the ways by which the various elements of style are combined and interrelated, to produce original, meaningful, and highly moving poems in the Khafajian style.
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Story-Telling Techniques In The Arabian Nights

by David Pinault

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 This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the Nights. Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions - especially Bulaq, MacNaghten, and the fourteenth-century Galland text recently edited by Mahdi - as well as unpublished Arabic manuscripts from libraries in France and North Africa.The study demonstrates that significantly different versions have survived of some of the most famous tales from the Nights. Pinault notes how individual manuscript redactors employed - and sometimes modified - formulaic phrases and traditional narrative topoi in ways consonant with the themes emphasized in particular versions of a tale. He also examines the redactors' modification of earlier sources - Arabic chronicles and Islamic religious treatises, geographers' accounts and medieval legends - for specific narrative goals. Comparison of the narrative structure of diverse story-collection also sheds new light on the relationship of the embedded subordinate-narrative to the overarching frame-tale.All cited passages from the Nights and other Arabic story- collections have been fully translated into English.
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Composition Of Mutanabbi'S Panegyrics To Sayf Al-Dawla

by Andras Hamori

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 Indentifies and describes recurrent patterns of composition in 22 major panegyrics Mutanabbi wrote to Sayf al-Dawla during his stay at the Hamdanid court. Topics discussed include the types of utterance used in endings, organizing conventions, and the non-random placement of crescendo motifs.
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Oral Poetry And Narratives From Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets Of The Dawasir Tribe - Between Nomadism And Settlement In Southern Najd

by Marcel Kurpershoek

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 This third volume in the author's series Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawasir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State.It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complemented by a substantial glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic Text, other glossaries and works on the Najdi dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arabic lexical materials.
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Oral Poetry And Narratives From Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story Of A Desert Knight - The Legend Of Slewih Al-'Atawi And Other 'Utaybah Heroes. An Edition With Translation And Introduction

by Marcel Kurpershoek

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 The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Slewih al-'Atawi and his brother Bxit, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Slewih's great-grandson Xalid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe.The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic, prosodic and stylistic features of the text, and Xalid's use of his ancestors' oral legacy in order to enhance his position in the tribal hierarchy of prestige. In addition to the translation of the oral text this volume offers a complete transcription, based on taped records and including variants found in published Saudi sources, and a substantial glossary.
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Oral Poetry And Narratives From Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry Of Ad-Dindan - A Bedouin Bard In Southern Najd. An Edition With Translation And Introduction

by Marcel Kurpershoek

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 This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindan, a bedouin poet of the Duwasir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition.The introduction describes Dindan's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the diwan's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.
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Oral Poetry And Narratives From Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History - Honour And Faith In The Traditions Of The Dawasir

by Kurpershoek

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 A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of the author's series Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents and analyses the oral traditions of the Dawasir tribal confederation in the area of Wadi ad-Dawasir, south of Riyadh. The introduction focusses on the tribe's self-image and its symbiosis of Bedouin and sedentary strains; its internal social relations and its place in the surrounding tribal world; the impact of the Wahhabi movement and the Saudi state's historical efforts to control the tribes; and the store of legends that continues to shape its collective consciousness. It is followed by the Arabic text of the poems and narratives in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complimented by an extensive glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic text.
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Classical Arabic Verse - History And Theory Of 'Arud

by Dimitry Frolov

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 Offering a vast panorama of the history of Arabic verse in its relation to Semitic verse, this work follows stages of its evolution from parallelistic pattern to the emergence of the three basic rhythms and then of the unique system of 'Arud.It proposes a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory including the famous "circles of Khali as a kind of generative device and traces its relation to the grammatical and lexicographical theories of al-Khalil ibn Ahmad.The monograph provides the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, puts forward a hypothesis about the existence of the archaic Hiran metrical school side by side with the Bedouin school and describes main metrical types of Arabic poetry: Bedouin, hiran, ('Abbasid), Classical, Andalusian.
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Al-Maqamat Al-Luzumiya By Abu L-Tahir Muhammad Ibn Yusuf Al-Tamimi Al-Saraqusti, Ibn Al-Astarkuwi (D. 538/1143)

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Al-Maqamat Al-Luzumiya By Abu L-Tahir Muhammad Ibn Yusuf Al-Tamimi Al-Saraqusti, Ibn Al-Astarkuwi (D. 538/1143)

by James Monroe

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 Although the Arabic maqamah, a branch of the picaresque genre, was much cultivated in the Middle Ages, little is known about it aside from the works of al-Hamadhani and al-hariri, its first two cultivators. This translation of the Maqamat al-luzumiyah by the twelfth-century Andalusi author al-Saraqusti makes available to Western scholars of narrative prose a hitherto little-known but important collection of Arabic maqamat. The "Preliminary Study" places this specific collection in the context of the overall maqama genre, it further places that genre in the contexts both of Arabic and of world literature, exploring the differences between the picaresque genre and the modern novel. It discusses the meaning of the work, shows the way in which it is original within its genre, and establishes its organic unity. Finally, it shows that late and post-classical Arabic literary works such as that of al-Saraqusti, which were composed during the so-called "period of decadence," are not decadent at all, contrary to the opinion prevalent among scholars in the field.
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Structures Of Avarice - The Bukhala' In Medieval Arabic Literature

by Malti-Douglas

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Neckveins Of Winter - The Controversy Over Natural And Artificial Poetry In Medieval Arabic Literary Criticism

by Ajami

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Short Stories Of Yusuf Idris - A Modern Egyptian Author

by Kurpershoek

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Trends And Movements In Modern Arabic Poetry

by Jayyusi

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Modern Arabic Poetry, 1800-1970 - The Development Of Its Form And Themes Under The Influence Of Western Literature

by Moreh

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Poetry And The Making Of Modern Egypt - (1882-1922)

by Mounah A. Khouri

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Introduction To The History Of Modern Arabic Literature In Egypt

by J. Brugman

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