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Looking Back At Al-Andalus - The Poetics Of Loss And Nostalgia In Medieval Arabic And Hebrew Literature

by Alexander Elinson

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 Looking Back at al-Andalus focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalus' literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By looking at a variety of genres, the book shows that literature aiming to recall and define al-Andalus expresses a series of symbolic literary objects more than a geographic and political entity fixed in a single time and place. Looking Back at al-Andalus offers a unique examination into the role of memory, language, and subjectivity in presenting a series of interpretations of what al-Andalus represented to different writers at different historical-cultural moments.
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Like Joseph In Beauty - Yemeni Vernacular Poetry And Arab-Jewish Symbiosis

by Mark S. Wagner

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 Like Joseph in Beauty traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called 'Humayni poetry'. From Muslim mystical circles, the courts of aristocrats in Highland Yemen, and kabbalist circles of Yemenite Jews, Humayni poetry distinguishes itself with lyricism, musicality, and eroticism. It also plays a variety of code-switching linguistic games. The book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a hitherto-neglected chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures. The book culminates with a discussion of ways in which poets and critics in modern-day Yemen and in Israel transformed this poetry.
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Pens, Swords, And The Springs Of Art - The Oral Poetry Dueling Of Palestinian Weddings In The Galilee

by Nadia Yaqub

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 Offering a detailed analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings, this work is unique in addressing poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and exploring the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry. It includes a study of poetry dueling in standard Arabic; a description of the historical and performance contexts of the Palestinian duels, as well as of poets and their training; an analysis of a single performance; and a re-interpretation of the nature verbal dueling generally.Including a transcription and translation of an entire performance, the book considers the social efficacy of poetry dueling, its aesthetic nature, and its value as a compositional device within a larger system of poetic production.
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Case Of Rhyme Versus Reason - Ibn Al-Rumi And His Poetics In Context

by Robert Mckinney

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 The poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile 'Abbasid poet Ibn al-Rumi is examined in this book. Part 1, The Poet, reconstructs the poet's life and times providing the background for Part II, The Poetry, which traces the influences in Ibn al-Rumi's distinctive poetic style and themes. This provides a glimpse into a rather fluid period in Arabic literary history when the boundary between poetry and prose was becoming increasingly permeable, due to the emergence of the so-called "secretary-poets," and to the prevalence and importance of the munazarah, or disputation. Part III, The Poem, analyzes the poet's celebrated 282-line poem commemorating the quashing of the Zanj rebellion. The towering architectonics and sophisticated organization of this poem provide an ideal opportunity to explore Ibn al-Rumi's poetic contribution.
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Virgin And Her Lover - Fragments Of An Ancient Greek Novel And A Persian Epic Poem

by Bo Utas e Tomas Hagg

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 Starting from the authors' discovery that the Persian epic poem Vamiq and ?Adhra by ?Unsuri (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of Metiokhos and Parthenope, the book contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with English translation and comments. The exciting story of the modern recovery of the two texts is told, and the transformations of the productive theme of The ardent lover and the virgin are traced from Greek novel to Persian poem, and through later Persian and Turkish literature. Of particular importance is the authors' attempt to reconstruct the common plot and individual variations, adding a new work to the limited corpus of ancient novels and shedding new light on the genre of Persian epic poetry.
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Description In Classical Arabic Poetry - Wasf, Ekphrasis, And Interarts Theory

by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi

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 This volume deals with wasf or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the qasidah (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. The Introduction offers the theoretical background of wasf and ekphrasis ("verbal representation of non-verbal texts" in its modern sense) that can be considered a Western counterpart of wasf. The main part of the book examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic qasidah from different ages (Jahili, Abbasid, Andalusian) with the motifs of horses, bees and honey-gathering, visual artifacts, performance of song, and architecture. Approaching the Arabic ode in light of modern Western critical theory, including the theories of ekphrasis and of interarts studies, this work is original and innovative, so it leads to a new understanding of a major form of traditional Arabic poetry.
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Contrariness In Classical Arabic Literature - Beautifying The Ugly And Uglifying The Beautiful By Abu Mansur Al-Tha?Alibi (D. 429/1038)

by Abu Mansur Al-Tha?Alibi

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 In his Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful (Tahsin al-qabih wa-taqbih al-hasan) the prolific anthologist al-Tha?alibi (d. 429/1038) offers a thematically arranged selection of Arabic poems and prose anecdotes or sayings with contrary or paradoxical purport, such as praise of miserliness, boredom, sickness, and death, or condemnation of generosity, intelligence, youth, and music. The book is both entertaining and informative, giving insight in premodern Arab and Islamic culture. It contains a new edition of the Arabic text and a complete English translation (the first in any language) with extensive annotation, preceded by an introduction with the necessary background of the genre.
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Oral Background Of Persian Epics - Storytelling And Poetry

by Kumiko Yamamoto

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 This volume discusses the indirect influence of oral transmission on the genesis and evolution of the Persian written epic tradition. On the basis of formal characteristics of naqqali (Persian storytelling) performance, a set of formal and thematic criteria is proposed to determine the extent to which written Persian epics show structures ultimately deriving from oral performance. It is applied to the Shah-name of Ferdowsi (c. 1000) and to the Garshasp-name of Asadi (c. 1064-66).The first part of the book examines the Oral-Formulaic Theory and proposes an alternative approach focusing on naqqali. The book may be relevant to both oralists and Iranists; it demonstrates the complex process where orality interacts with written tradition in the genesis of the Shah-name.
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Periples De Kalila Et Dimna: Quand Les Fables Voyagent Dans La Litterature Et Les Arts Du Monde Islamique - The Journeys Of Kalila And Dimna: Fables In The Literature And Arts Of The Islamic World

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 Kalila wa-Dimna is one of the best-known texts of medieval Arabic literature and counts among the most illustrated works in the Islamic world. The extent of the corpus and its journey through the ages make it the ideal material for a reflection on the evolution of iconography in Islamic art. The studies gathered in this volume edited by Eloise Brac de la Perriere, Aida El Khiari and Annie Vernay-Nouri, showcase a wide diversity of approaches that convincingly crosses textual investigation, codicology, iconographical study, and physico-chemical analyses. They explore new tracks, either by devoting themselves to the examination of unknown or rarely studied manuscripts, or by proposing innovative readings of this extremely rich work that is Kalila wa-Dimna. Kalila wa-Dimna est l'un des textes les plus celebres de la litterature arabe medievale et compte parmi les uvres les plus illustrees du monde islamique. L'etendue du corpus et son parcours a travers les ages en font un extraordinaire materiau pour mener une reflexion sur l'image dans l'histoire des arts islamiques. Les etudes rassemblees dans ce volume dirige par Eloise Brac de la Perriere, Aida El Khiari et Annie Vernay-Nouri, mettent en uvre une grande diversite d'approches croisant investigation textuelle, codicologique, iconographique et analyses physico-chimiques. Elles explorent toutes des pistes nouvelles, soit en se consacrant a l'examen de manuscrits inedits ou tres rarement etudies, soit en proposant des lectures innovantes de cette uvre extremement riche qu'est Kalila wa-Dimna. Contributors: Eloise Brac de la Perriere, Nathalie Buisson, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Frantz Chaigne, Anna Contadini, Jean-Charles Coulon, Francoise Cuisance, Aida El Khiari, Rajana Fatima Amalarajah, Beatrice Gruendler, Mika Natif, Bernard O'Kane, Hoa Perriguey, Yves Porter, Francis Richard, Valerie Saurel, Christine Van Ruymbeke, Annie Vernay-Nouri. The volume is co-published by Brill, Leiden, and the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
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Layli And Majnun - Love, Madness And Mystic Longing In Nizami'S Epic Romance

by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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 This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezami's romance Layli and Majnun (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnun's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Layli lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezami's style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.
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How Do You Say &Quote;Epigram&Quote; In Arabic?: Literary History At The Limits Of Comparison

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How Do You Say &Quote;Epigram&Quote; In Arabic?: Literary History At The Limits Of Comparison

by Adam Talib

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 The qasidah and the qit?ah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqtu?, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic? is the first study of this highly popular and adaptable genre of Arabic poetry. By addressing this lacuna, the book models an alternative comparative literature, one in which the history of Arabic poetry has as much to tell us about epigrams as does Greek.
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Mischievous Muse: Extant Poetry And Prose By Ibn Quzman Of Cordoba (D. Ah 555/Ad 1160)

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Mischievous Muse: Extant Poetry And Prose By Ibn Quzman Of Cordoba (D. Ah 555/Ad 1160)

by James T. Monroe

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 The first part of this work includes all the known works of the twelfth-century Andalusi author Ibn Quzman, most of which are zajal poems composed in the colloquial dialect of Andalus. They have been edited in a Romanized transliteration, and are accompanied by a facing-page English prose translation, along with notes and commentaries intended to elucidate matters relevant to each poem. In the second part of the work, sixteen chapters are devoted to analyzing specific poems from a literary perspective, in order to delve into their meaning and, thereby, explain the poet's literary goals.
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Anthologist'S Art - Abu Mansur Al-Tha?Alibi And His Yatimat Al-Dahr

by Bilal Orfali

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 Why did premodern authors in the Arabic-Islamic culture compile literary anthologies, and why were these works remarkably popular? How can an anthology that consists of reproduced material be original and creative, and serve various literary and political ends? How did anthologists select their material, then record and arrange it?This book examines the life and works of Abu Mansur al-Tha?alibi (350-429/961-1039), an eminent anthologist from Nishapur, paying special attention to his magnum opus, Yatimat al-dahr (The Unique Pearl), and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatima (The Completion of the Yatima). This book is a direct window on to an anthologist's workshop in the second half of the fourth/tenth century. It examines the methodological consciousness expressed in Tha?alibi's selection and arrangement, and his sophisticated system of internal references and cross-references to other works; how he selected from his contemporaries' oeuvres; how he sought, recorded, memorized, misplaced, and sometimes lost or forgot his selections; how he scrutinized the authenticity of material, accepting, questioning, or rejecting its attribution; and the errors and inconsistencies that resulted from this process.
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Prophets, Gods And Kings In Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan - An Intertextual Reading Of An Egyptian Popular Epic

by Helen Blatherwick

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 This book is a literary, intertextual study of an Egyptian popular epic. In this innovative study, Helen Blatherwick investigates how various sources, including Islamic qisas al-anbiya? ('tales of the prophets'), Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egyptian myths and narratives, and recensions of the Alexander Romance function as intertexts within Sirat Sayf. Blatherwick argues that these intertexts are deployed as narrative devices which are readily recognisable to the story's audience, and that they are significant carriers of meaning and theme. Crucially, these intertexts also interact within Sirat Sayf to bring a conceptual continuity to its discussion of kingship and society that stretches from this late-medieval epic back to ancient Egyptian narratives.
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Metapoesis In The Arabic Tradition - From Modernists To Muhdathun

by Huda J. Fakhreddine

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 In Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition Huda J. Fakhreddine expands the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature. Through this lens that is often used to study modernist poetry of the 20th and the 21st century, this book detects and examines a meta-poetic tendency and a self-reflexive attitude in the poetry of the first century of Abbasid poets. What and why is poetry? are questions the Abbasid poets asked themselves with the same persistence and urgency their modern successor did. This approach to the poetry of the Abbasid age serves to refresh our sense of what is "modernist" or "poetically new" and detach it from chronology.
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Nubat Ramal Al-Maya In Cultural Context - The Pen, The Voice, The Text

by Carl Davila

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 In this unique edition, Carl Davila takes an original approach to the texts of the modern Moroccan Andalusian music tradition. This volume offers a literary-critical analysis and English translation of the texts of this nuba, studies their linguistic and thematic features, and compares them with key manuscripts and published anthologies. Four introductory chapters and four appendices discuss the role of orality in the tradition and the manuscripts that lie behind the print anthologies. Two supplements cross-reference key poetic images in English and Arabic, and provide information on known authors of the texts. This groundbreaking contribution will interest scholars and students of pre-modern Arabic poetry, muwashshahat, Andalusian music traditions, Arabic Studies, orality, and sociolinguistics.
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Essays On Nima Yushij - Animating Modernism In Persian Poetry

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