The Zephyrs Of Najd
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The Zephyrs Of Najd
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Author : Jaroslav Stetkevych
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-12-15
The Zephyrs Of Najd written by Jaroslav Stetkevych and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-12-15 with Education categories.
Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib) of the classic Arab code, or qusidah. In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in Arabo-Islamic mystical poetry, into expressions of spiritual nostalgia. Stetkevych also draws intriguing parallels between the highlands of Najd in Arabic poetry and Arcadia in the European tradition. He concludes by exploring the degree to which the pastoral-paradisiacal archetype of the nasib pervades Arabic literary perception, from the pre-Islamic ode through the Thousand and One Nights and later texts. Enhanced by Stetkevych's sensitive translations of all the Arabic texts discussed, The Zephyrs of Najd brings the classical Arabic ode fully into the purview of contemporary literary and critical discourse.
Muhammad And The Golden Bough
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Author : Jaroslav Stetkevych
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-22
Muhammad And The Golden Bough written by Jaroslav Stetkevych and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.ContentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian MythThe Textual PuzzleThe Thamudic Backdrop to the PuzzleThe First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on TabukThe Totem and the TabooPoeticizing the ThamudDemythologizing the ThamudThe ScreamThe Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and GilgameshConclusion
Iberian Jewish Literature
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Author : Jonathan P. Decter
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-08
Iberian Jewish Literature written by Jonathan P. Decter and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-08 with Literary Collections categories.
This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
On Fiction And Adab In Medieval Arabic Literature
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Author : Philip F. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2005
On Fiction And Adab In Medieval Arabic Literature written by Philip F. Kennedy and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Arabic fiction categories.
Proceedings from a workshop in medieval Arabic literature, April 21-22, 2000.
The City Lament
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Author : Tamar M. Boyadjian
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-15
The City Lament written by Tamar M. Boyadjian and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha al-mudun. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of the genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (1095–1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss that address the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, Boyadjian challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades. The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates of the Middle East, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, arguing for shared poetic and rhetorical modes. Reframing our understanding of literary sources produced across the medieval Mediterranean from an antagonistic, orientalist model to an analogous one, Boyadjian demonstrates how lamentations about the loss of Jerusalem, whether to Muslim or Christian forces, reveal fascinating parallels and rich, cross-cultural exchanges.
A Cultural History Of The Arabic Language
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Author : Sharron Gu
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-17
A Cultural History Of The Arabic Language written by Sharron Gu and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.
Tradition And Modernity In Arabic Language And Literature
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Author : J R Smart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Tradition And Modernity In Arabic Language And Literature written by J R Smart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Social Science categories.
Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.
Neither A Borrower
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Author : Richard A. Serrano
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Neither A Borrower written by Richard A. Serrano and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In his studies of borrowing from distant poetic traditions, Serrano aims to uncover the heterogenity of influences and intentions in the most canonical of texts: ""Mallarme"" (1842-98), ""Segalen"" (1878-1919), ""Wang Wei"" (701-61), the ""Classic of Poetry"" (8th century BCE), ""Buhturi"" (821-97), and the ""Qur'an"" (7th century CE). Arguing, among other things that Mallarme was really a Chinese poet, that ancient Chinese poets discovered the workings of film imagery, and that the Qur'an's apparently disjointed narrative is profoundly lyrical, Serrano intends to overturn accepted notions of how to read individual works. He brings methodologies from the study of one literature to bear on the reading of another."
Ab Tamm M And The Poetics Of The Abb Sid Age
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Author : Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Ab Tamm M And The Poetics Of The Abb Sid Age written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study deals with the most radical of the badī' ("novel") poets of the 'Abbasid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badī' theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Abū Tammām's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the Hamāsah.
Al Mu Ayyad Al Sh R Z And Fatimid Da Wa Poetry
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Author : Tahera Qutbuddin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-05-01
Al Mu Ayyad Al Sh R Z And Fatimid Da Wa Poetry written by Tahera Qutbuddin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-01 with History categories.
This study analyzes the committed religio-political poetry of al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī, chief missionary for the Fatimids in the fifth/eleventh century, demonstrating his founding of the tradition of "Fatimid daʿwa (religious mission) poetry” that has flourished after him for a thousand years.
