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1 online resource |
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Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Ser |
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Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Saqṭ al-Zand: The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qaṣīdah -- Introduction. The Poetics of Engagement -- Chapter 1. A Long Night's Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Night Journey in the Classical Arabic Poetic Tradition -- 2. Section I: Nocturnes, or Lyric 'Fragments' -- 3. Section II: A Master Qaṣīdah with Nocturnal Raḥīl: A Long Night's Journey into Day |
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3.1. Nasīb and Nocturnal Raḥīl (ll. 1-18) -- 3.2. Coming to Water at Daybreak (ll. 19-23) -- 3.3. Madīḥ of Abū Ibrāhīm, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and the Ahl al-Bayt (ll. 24-43) -- 3.4. Poetic Response (44-53) -- 3.5. Religious Rank and Raḥīl Closure (ll. 53/54-62) -- Chapter 2. The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Section I: The Art of Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 15 Mīmiyyah -- 2.1. Poetry and the Obligation of Repaying Praise (ll. 1-17) -- 2.2. A Qaṣīdah within a Qaṣīdah (ll. 18-59) -- 2.3. Praise, Vindication, and Vatic Pronouncement (ll. 60-74) |
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3. Section II: The Art of Self-Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 16 Lāmiyyah -- 3.1. Movement I: Protest, Despair, and Vindication ll. 1-24 -- 3.2. Movement II: Celebratory Night-Journey and Boast (ll. 25-41) -- Chapter 3. The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cooing of the Dove: Saqṭ al-Zand 43 Dāliyyah, Rithāʼ to a Ḥanafī faqīh, Abū Ḥamzah -- 2.1. Introduction: Treading on the Dead (ll. 1-16) -- 2.2. Lamentation: The Cooing of the Dove (ll. 17-22) -- 2.3. Eulogy (ll. 23-30) -- 2.4. Farewell and Burial (ll. 31-34) |
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2.5. The Futility of Mourning and Inevitability of Death: The Example of Solomon (ll. 35-41) -- 2.6. The Poet's Valediction and Elegy (ll. 42-53) -- 2.7. Closure: Consolation and Meditation of the Inevitability and Meaning of Death (ll. 54-64) -- 3. The Cawing of the Crow: Saqṭ al-Zand 60 Fāʼiyyah, Rithāʼ to al-Sharīf al-Ṭāhir al-Mūsawī -- 3.1. Elegy of al-Sharīf al-Ṭāhir (ll. 1-39) -- 3.2. Madīḥ for al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (ll. 40-68) -- Chapter 4. Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia -- 1. Introduction |
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2. SZ 58: Our Camels' Yearning -- 2.1. Movement I(A): The Lightning-Flash and Longing: Our Camels' Passion (ll. 1-31) -- 2.2. Movement I(B): Nocturnal Torment and the Beloved's Tears (ll. 32-41) -- 2.3. Movement II: The Poet's Apologia (ll. 42-51) -- 3. Saqṭ al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisrā and Tubbaʿ -- 3.1. Nasīb: Abodes, Crows, and the Phantom of the Beloved (ll. 1-16) -- 3.2. Raḥīl: The Camels, the Night, the Desert (ll. 17-47) -- 3.3. Excursus on Poetic Language -- 3.4. Madīḥ: Greeting, Longing, Praise, and Affection (ll. 48-64) |
| Summary |
"In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late Abbasid master-poet, Abu al-Ala al-Ma arri (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqt al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qasidah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzum Ma La Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Contains some Arabic poems with English translations and transliterations |
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Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Saqṭ al-zand.
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Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Luzūmīyāt.
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Luzūmīyāt (Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī) fast |
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Saqṭ al-zand (Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī) fast |
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Poetics.
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Poetics
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022014365 |
| ISBN |
9004499288 |
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9789004499287 |
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