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1 online resource (369 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Author bio; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Dangerous Love; 1 Writing to the End of Love: Waḥıd and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-RuÌ#x84;mı; Abstract; Introduction; I. The Philological Measures of Love; II. The Painful Grammar of a World That Rhymes with Her Name; III. Grammatically in Love; IV. Ghazal: The Mode Immortal; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North; Abstract; Introduction; Displaced Sexuality; Sexualizing the Orient; Rewriting Sexuality; Conclusion; Notes |
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6 Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of FuruÌ#x84;gh FarrukhzaÌ#x84;dNotes; Bibliography; 7 Making Love through Scholarship in Jamıl Buthayna; Poem 27; Notes; Bibliography; 8 JahaÌ#x84;n Malik KhaÌ#x84;tuÌ#x84;n: Gender, Canon, and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess; Who and Where Is the Beloved?; The Quest for Extratextual Reality; Poetry as a Fictitious Transfiguration; The Poetic Masks of the Author; Gender Trouble; The World: An Attempt of Ambiguous Refeminization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Erotic Love |
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9 Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic CompendiumLove and the Beloved in Early Arabic Literature; The Encyclopedia of Pleasure and the Nature of Love; Encyclopedia of Pleasure: A Sexual Ethic for the Elite; The Beloved in the Encyclopedia of Pleasure; The Loverâ#x80;#x99;s Duty; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; 10 Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltanâ#x80;#x99;s; Notes; Bibliography; 11 Tempting the Theologian: The â#x80;#x9C;Cureâ#x80;#x9D; of Wineâ#x80;#x99;s Seduction; The Reading; Erotic Antidote: More Wine!; The Ecstasy of Wine |
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From the Lips of the Grail: Figures of SeductionUnbearable Lightness; The Abode of Wine; More than You Know; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Dialectical Love; 12 Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition; Introduction; Debates on Philosophy and Literature; Dialectical Discourse in Ottoman Divan Love Poetry; Analysis of the Dialectical Discourse in Poems; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography |
| Summary |
"In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its classical, modern and postmodern manifestations, taking into account the different sexual orientations and forms of desire expressed. From the pre-Islamic 'Udhri (romantic unrequited love), to the erotic same-sex love in thirteenth century poetry and prose, the divine Sufi reflections on the topic, and post-revolutionary love encounters in Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures connects the affective and cultural with the political and the obscene. In focusing on the diverse manifestations of love and tropes of the lover/beloved binary, this book is unique in foregrounding what is often regarded as a 'taboo subject' in the region. The multi-faceted outlook reveals the variety of philological, philosophical, poetic and literary forms that treat this significant motif."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography3 The Seduction of FayruÌ#x84;z BahÌ£rı; The Seduction of the LuÌ#x84;ṭı:  Between Panic and Pleasure; The Seduction of the Reader; The Seduction of FaÌ#x84;ruÌ#x84;q HÌ£usnı: From Engagement to Engouement; Notes; Bibliography; Divine Love; 4 Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings; Sympathy with Satan as a Lover; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Reverence for the Beloved as a Religious Metaphor; HÌ£ubbaÌ#x84; as a Metaphor for a Female Deity or KaÊ¿ba; HÌ£ubbaÌ#x84; as a Metaphor for the Female Divine in Islamic Mysticism; Notes; Bibliography; Gender and Love |
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13 The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the HÌ£ubb Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies |
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Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
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Love in literature.
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Love in literature
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Middle Eastern literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Al-Samman, Hanadi
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Beard, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781786722263 |
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1786722267 |
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