Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies
Published on 11. February 2021
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-90-04-45908-3 (ISBN)
Description
Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.
Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Poekel, Isabel Toral
Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Poekel, Isabel Toral
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
14 farbige Abbildungen
14 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-45908-3 (9789004459083)
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Bilal Orfali is Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut. He previously held the M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies at Ohio State University. He specializes in Arabic literature, Sufism, and quranic Studies.
Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History and Dean of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. She is a scholar of the Abbasid Caliphate and Byzantium, with women and gender as a focal point of her research.
Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History and Dean of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. She is a scholar of the Abbasid Caliphate and Byzantium, with women and gender as a focal point of her research.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Compilation, Authorship, and Readership
1 The ?Iqd al-farid by Ibn ?Abd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic
?Isabel Toral
2 "I Begin with the Kings:" Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassam's al-Dhakhira
?Enass Khansa
3 Towards a Reconstruction of Abu Na?r al-Bahili's K. Abyat al-ma?ani
?David Larsen
4 A House in Words: Al-Ghuzuli as Author's Alternate
?Boutheina Khaldi
Part 2 Pleasure
5 Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ?Ali ibn Na?r al-Katib's Jawami? al-ladhdha
?Jeremy Kurzyniec
6 Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnash al-?a?ik: A Study in Social Codicology
?Carl Davila
Part 3 Religion and Education
7 Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying
?Lyall Armstrong
8 Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) ?Uyun al-akhbar as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating "Religion" and Piety
?Hans-Peter Poekel
9 Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqamas of Ibn Naqiya (d. 485/1092)
?Matthew L. Keegan
Part 4 Geography
10 The Fa?a?il of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies
?Suleiman A. Mourad
11 Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ?Umara al-Yamani (d. 569/1174) in the Kharidat al-qa?r*
?Nathaniel A. Miller
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Compilation, Authorship, and Readership
1 The ?Iqd al-farid by Ibn ?Abd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic
?Isabel Toral
2 "I Begin with the Kings:" Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassam's al-Dhakhira
?Enass Khansa
3 Towards a Reconstruction of Abu Na?r al-Bahili's K. Abyat al-ma?ani
?David Larsen
4 A House in Words: Al-Ghuzuli as Author's Alternate
?Boutheina Khaldi
Part 2 Pleasure
5 Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ?Ali ibn Na?r al-Katib's Jawami? al-ladhdha
?Jeremy Kurzyniec
6 Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnash al-?a?ik: A Study in Social Codicology
?Carl Davila
Part 3 Religion and Education
7 Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying
?Lyall Armstrong
8 Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) ?Uyun al-akhbar as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating "Religion" and Piety
?Hans-Peter Poekel
9 Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqamas of Ibn Naqiya (d. 485/1092)
?Matthew L. Keegan
Part 4 Geography
10 The Fa?a?il of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies
?Suleiman A. Mourad
11 Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ?Umara al-Yamani (d. 569/1174) in the Kharidat al-qa?r*
?Nathaniel A. Miller
Index