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1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) |
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Oxford Oriental Monographs |
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Oxford Oriental monographs.
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| Contents |
""7. Ibn ̀Arabiâ€?s MùashsharÄ?t: A Comparative Approach""""1. A brief survey of the form""; ""2. The mùashsharÄ?t format: general characteristics""; ""3. Beginnings and endings: al-FazÄ?zı""; ""(a) Alif""; ""(b) Lām-alif""; ""(c) Yāâ€?""; ""4. Beginnings and endings: Ibn ̀Arabi ""; ""(a) Alif""; ""(b) Lām-alif""; ""(c) Yāâ€?""; ""8. Speech and Cosmology in Ibn ̀Arabi's MùashsharÄ?t""; ""1. Ibn ̀Arabīâ€?s cosmology in the mùashsharāt""; ""2. Thāâ€?â€?â€?I turned the reins of my thought ... â€?""; ""3. Climbing onto the Throne: poems dhāl to (omitted)ād"" |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Dīwān: A Neglected Work""; ""2. Research on the Dīwān""; ""3. This Bookâ€?s Approach""; ""1. â€?A great theosophist rather than a great poet?â€?""; ""1. Ibn ̀Arabiâ€?s ideas""; ""(a) Oneness of being?""; ""(b) Cosmology: the theory of emanations""; ""(c) The Perfect Human and the Seal of the Saints""; ""(d) The manifestation of God in the forms""; ""2. Ibn ̀Arabiâ€?s poetic style""; ""(a) Didacticism?""; ""(b) Shifts in register""; ""(c) Syntactic ambiguity""; ""3. Social and historical context"" |
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""2. Ibn ̀Arabi on Poetry: Three Prose Texts""""1. Poetry as alchemy: Futuhat chapter 167""; ""2. Poetry as a hair in the throat: the introduction to the DÄ«wÄ?n al-MàÄ?rif""; ""3. Poetry as dietary law: FutÅ«hÄ?t chapter 398""; ""4. Religion and poetry: the historical background""; ""3. Ibn ̀Arabi and the Qurâ€?an: A Series of Poems""; ""1. Ibn ̀Araiâ€?s Qurâ€?an poems: an overview""; ""2. â€?If you bend it, you break itâ€?: the poem on SÅ«rat al-TahrÄ«m""; ""3. â€?There is no stationâ€?: the poem on SÅ«rat al-Ahzab""; ""4. â€?Warning is of no useâ€?: the poem on SÅ«rat al-Qamar"" |
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""5. â€?When the sun of souls shows its dawnâ€?: the poem on Surat al-Shams""""6. â€?By the setting of the sun, by the rising of the moonâ€?: the â€?RÄ€â€?IYYA SHAMSIYYAâ€? OF MAKZÅ®N AL-SINJÄ€RÄ®""; ""4. Ibn ̀Arabi and the Poets: Imitations and Replies""; ""1. Ibn ̀Arabi and imitation""; ""2. â€?The one I do not name ... â€?""; ""3. â€?You are not Noah ... â€?""; ""4. â€?I am not one of those whose heart limits love ... â€?""; ""5. Rhyme and Reason: Five RÄ?â€?iyyÄ?t""; ""1. â€?I saw a flash ... â€?""; ""2. â€?I saw a girl ... â€?"" |
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""3. �Pleasure spread over my limbs ... �""""4. �What Labid said, in his ignorance ... �""; ""5. �On a Buraq which I created from my thought ... �""; ""6. Some key terms""; ""6. �Ultra-Monorhyme�: A Stylistic Eccentricity in Comparative Perspective""; ""1. �So see Him in a tree and see Him in a stone ... �""; ""2. Ultra-monorhyme as a form""; ""(a) Ascetic ultra-monorhyme""; ""(b) Sufi litany ultra-monorhyme""; ""(c) The Sufi riddling ultra-monorhyme""; ""3. The sestina""; ""4. Ultra-monorhyme: conclusions and perspectives for further research"" |
| Summary |
Muhyl-D Ibn 'Arab(1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention. This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to his Dn (collected poems). It begins by attempting to define Ibn 'Arab's poetic style and his understanding of poetics, which is closely intertwined with his metaphysics: the rhythmsof poetry echo those of creation, and meaning combines with form just as the spirit descends on matter. Drawing on a pre-Islamic theme, he insists that his poetry was revealed to him word for word by a spirit. At the same time, however, his attitude to the function of poetry and its relation to scripture is closer tomainstream medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian theology than has usually been thought. Denis E. McAuley focuses on close readings of books in unusual verse forms, including poetic responses to chapters of the Qur'an; imitations of earlier poets; poems that use only one rhyme word; and a cycle of poems modelled on the letters of the alphabet. In so doing, he makes frequent comparisons with other Islamic and European poets from the sixth century to the dawn of the twentieth, many of them virtually unstudied. Ibn 'Arabemerges as a highly original poet whose work casts afresh light on the period and on classical Arabic literature as a whole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 2, 2012) |
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Text in English and Arabic |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Arabic poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191634390 |
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0191634395 |
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9781283601955 |
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1283601958 |
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9780191743375 |
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0191743372 |
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