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1 online resource (235 pages) |
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Library of Arabic Literature Ser |
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Library of Arabic Literature Ser
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Letter from the General Editor; About this Paperback; Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; Notes to the Introduction; Al-Ṣūlī's Epistle to Abū l-Layth Muzāḥim ibn Fātik; The Life and Times of Abū Tammām; The Superiority of Abū Tammām; Abū Tammām and Aḥmad ibn Abī Duʼād; Abū Tammām and Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Shaybānī; Abū Tammām and al-Ḥasan ibn Rajāʼ; Abū Tammām, al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zayyāt; Abū Tammām and the House of Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn |
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Abū Tammām and Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Thaghrī l-Ṭāʼī l-ḤumaydīAbū Tammām and Aḥmad ibn al-Muʿtaṣim; Abū Tammām and Mukhallad ibn Bakkār al-Mawṣilī; Criticisms of Abū Tammām; Abū Tammām as a Source; Abū Tammām Described; Stories Told of His Family; Diverse Information about Abū Tammām; The Death of Abū Tammām and His Age at the Time; Laments Composed for Abū Tammām; Notes; Glossary of Names and Terms; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About the Translator; The Library of Arabic Literature |
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A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both highly controversial and extremely popular, this sophisticated verse influenced all subsequent poetry in Arabic and epitomized the "modern style" (badi'), an avant-garde aesthetic that was very much in step with the intellectual, artistic, and cultural vibrancy of the Abbasid dynasty.In The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, translated into English for the first time, the courtier and scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli (d. 335 or 336/946 or 947) mounts a robust defense of "modern" poetry and of Abu Tammam's significance as a poet against his detractors, while painting a lively picture of literary life in Baghdad and Samarra. Born into an illustrious family of Turkish origin, al-Suli was a courtier, companion, and tutor to the Abbasid caliphs. He wrote extensively on caliphal history and poetry and, as a scholar of "modern" poets, made a lasting contribution to the field of Arabic literary history. Like the poet it promotes, al-Suli's text is groundbreaking: it represents a major step in the development of Arabic poetics, and inaugurates a long line of treatises on innovation in poetry |
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Print version record |
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Poets, Arab -- 750-1258 -- Biography
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HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula.
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Poets, Arab
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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Cave, Terence
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Gruendler, Beatrice
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| ISBN |
9781479874699 |
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1479874698 |
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