Islam and New Directions in World Literature
Published on 29. November 2022
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-4744-8405-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts.
Exploring Islam's presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
Exploring Islam's presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
Reviews / Votes
An Islamicate turn in world literature? Introduced in the 1970s, Islamicate never seemed likely as a descriptor supplanting Muslim and Islamic, but its ascent now seems imminent due to this sparkling collection of essays, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, with fresh insight and apt analysis in every chapter. -- Bruce B. Lawrence, Marcus Family Humanities Professor of Religion Emeritus, Duke University Like the regions of the map on this book's cover, the places the contributors take us to have long been there but have remained largely uncharted-until now. By bringing together important interventions on the world literature of Islam, Bin Tyeer and Gallien are showing- and leading-the way. -- Professor Shawkat Toorawa, Yale UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
712 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8405-3 (9781474484053)
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Persons
Sarah Bin Tyeer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East, South Asian and Africa Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Pre-modern Arabic Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Claire Gallien is Senior Lecturer in English at University Paul Valery-Montpellier III. She is She is author of L'orient anglais (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Liverpool UP, 2011) and co-editor (with Ladan Niayesh) of Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period (New York: Palgrave, 2019). Jeffrey Einboden (Ph.D, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of American Literature at Northern Illinois University. His research has appeared in Translation and Literature, Milton Quarterly, Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Qur'anic Studies, and the co-translated The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae, 2009). Einboden's 'The Genesis of Weltliteratur' (Literature and Theology, 2005) was named one of the 100 seminal articles published by Oxford University Press during the past century.
Content
Foreword - Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Universite Paul Valery - Montpellier 3)
Tropes of Orientalism
2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths' Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)
3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written
4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madi?) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)
5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)
6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir
Circulation,Translation, Rereading
7. Friedrich Rueckert's Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur'an - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cueneyd Yildirim (Muenster Universitaet)
8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)
9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Secular/Non-Secular
10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC)
11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)
12. Indonesia's "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Universite Paul Valery - Montpellier 3)
Tropes of Orientalism
2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths' Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)
3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written
4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madi?) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)
5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)
6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir
Circulation,Translation, Rereading
7. Friedrich Rueckert's Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur'an - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cueneyd Yildirim (Muenster Universitaet)
8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)
9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Secular/Non-Secular
10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC)
11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)
12. Indonesia's "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)