Title Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / Samer M. Ali

Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) Series Poetics of orality and literacy. Contents Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buḥturī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Oral tradition -- Islamic Empire Salons -- Islamic Empire Arabic poetry -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism HISTORY -- Medieval. Arabic poetry Intellectual life Oral tradition Salons SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life Subject Islamic Empire Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780268074654 0268074658

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