The Composition Of Mutanabbis Panegyrics To Sayf Al Dawla

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The Composition of Mutanabbī's Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla

Author : Andras Hamori
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900466307X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Composition of Mutanabbī's Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla written by Andras Hamori and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to identify and describe recurrent patterns of composition in the twenty two major panegyrics Mutanabbī wrote to Sayf al-Dawla during his stay at the ḥamdānid court in Aleppo between 337/948 and 345/956. It discusses the types of utterance used in endings and in cadential lines before definable internal boundaries, the organising conventions of the passages that lead into and out of chronicles of military campaigns, the non-random placement of certain crescendo motifs, various means of local organisation in poems without events, etc. It also considers brief differences in technique between the Aleppo period and Mutanabbī's earlier and later work, and casts a glance at possible predecessors. Based on a sizable and coherent sample of poetry, this study demonstrates that compositional rules and predilections played a pervasive role in Mutanabbī's writing in the years when his career was at its height.

The Poetry of Ibn Khafājah

Author : Magda M. Al-Nowaihi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663096
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Ibn Khafājah written by Magda M. Al-Nowaihi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an attempt to identify and describe the distinctive features of the poetic style of the acclaimed medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Khafaājah, who has been credited with starting a new school of poetry, in Andalus and elsewhere. It offers a close reading of his poetry, concentrating on the three basic elements of style — imagery, rhetorical devices, and structural patterns. It shows how Ibn Khafājah creatively uses the poetic tradition available to him to form new images and scenes, create multi-layered poems, and bestow different levels of unity and coherence on his poems. The study demonstrates some of the ways by which the various elements of style are combined and interrelated, to produce original, meaningful, and highly moving poems in the Khafajian style.

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History

Author : Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900450267X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History written by Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of the author's series Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents and analyses the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation in the area of Wādi ad-Dawāsir, south of Riyadh. The introduction focusses on the tribe's self-image and its symbiosis of Bedouin and sedentary strains; its internal social relations and its place in the surrounding tribal world; the impact of the Wahhābi movement and the Saudi state's historical efforts to control the tribes; and the store of legends that continues to shape its collective consciousness. It is followed by the Arabic text of the poems and narratives in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complimented by an extensive glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic text.

Pens, Swords, And the Springs of Art

Author : Nadia G. Yaqub
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004152598
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Pens, Swords, And the Springs of Art written by Nadia G. Yaqub and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.

Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa

Author : Stefan Sperl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004103870
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa written by Stefan Sperl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe

Author : P. M. Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112766
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe written by P. M. Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.

The Expeditions

Author : Maʿmar ibn Rāshid
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479816825
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Expeditions written by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qur'an. This fascinating foundational seminal work contains stories handed down by Ma'mar to his most prominent pupil, 'Abd al-Razzaq of Sanaa, relating Muhammad's early life and prophetic career as well as the adventures and tribulations of his earliest followers during their conquest of the Near East. Edited from a sole surviving manuscript, the Arabic text offers numerous improved readings over those of previous editions, including detailed notes on the text's transmission and variants as found in later works. This new translation, which renders the original into readable, modern English for the first time, is accompanied by numerous annotations elucidating the cultural, religious and historical contexts of the events and individuals described within its pages. The Expeditions represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims' memory of the lives of Muhammad and his companions, and is an indispensable text for gaining insight into the historical biography of both the Prophet and the rise of the Islamic empire.

Transforming Loss into Beauty

Author : Marlé Hammond
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617971650
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Loss into Beauty written by Marlé Hammond and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to Arabic elegy, the subject of an unfinished work by al-Nowaihi from which this volume takes its title. Included here is a previously unpublished lecture on elegy delivered by al- Nowaihi herself. Other contributors examine this poetic form in both classical and modern contexts, from a number of angles, including the partial feminization of the genre, making this volume perhaps the most comprehensive resource on the Arabic elegy available in English. The book's second half features essays relating to al-Nowaihi's other research interests, especially the modern Arabic novel and its transgressive and marginalized status as literature. It deals with authors as varied as Tawfiq al-Hakim, Latifa al-Zayyat, Bensalem Himmich, and Sonallah Ibrahim. Broad in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, this volume makes a fitting tribute to an inspiring scholar. Contributors: Roger Allen, Dina Amin, Michael Beard, Jonathan P. Decter, Alexander E. Elinson, Marlé Hammond, András Hámori, Mervat Hatem, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Richard Jacquemond, Lital Levy, Mara Naaman, Magda al-Nowaihi, Dana Sajdi, and Christopher Stone.

The Oral Background of Persian Epics

Author : Kumiko Yamamoto
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004125872
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Oral Background of Persian Epics written by Kumiko Yamamoto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a set of criteria for determining the extent to which oral tradition influences written Persian epics. The criteria are applied to Persian epics, the Shah-name (c. 1000) and the Garshasp-name (c. 1064-66).

Twenty-First Century Jihad

Author : Elisabeth Kendall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737171
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Jihad written by Elisabeth Kendall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and significance of jihad remain subject to debate and controversy. With this in mind, Twenty-First Century Jihad examines the ways in which the concept of jihad has changed, from its roots in the Qur'an to its usage in current debate. This book explores familiar modern political angles, and touches on far less commonly analysed instances of jihad, incorporating issues of law, society, literature and military action. As this key concept is ever-more important for international politics and security studies, Twenty-First Century Jihad contains vital analysis for those researching the role of religion in the modern world.

Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights

Author : David Pinault
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004095304
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights written by David Pinault and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the "Nights." Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions - especially Bulaq, MacNaghten, and the fourteenth-century Galland text recently edited by Mahdi - as well as unpublished Arabic manuscripts from libraries in France and North Africa. The study demonstrates that significantly different versions have survived of some of the most famous tales from the "Nights." Pinault notes how individual manuscript redactors employed - and sometimes modified - formulaic phrases and traditional narrative topoi in ways consonant with the themes emphasized in particular versions of a tale. He also examines the redactors' modification of earlier sources - Arabic chronicles and Islamic religious treatises, geographers' accounts and medieval legends - for specific narrative goals. Comparison of the narrative structure of diverse story-collection also sheds new light on the relationship of the embedded subordinate-narrative to the overarching frame-tale. All cited passages from the "Nights" and other Arabic story- collections have been fully translated into English.

The Literature of Al-Andalus

Author : María Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521030234
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Al-Andalus written by María Rosa Menocal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.

Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415966924
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index written by Josef W. Meri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Al-Mutanabbi

Author : Margaret Larkin
Publisher : Oneworld Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Al-Mutanabbi written by Margaret Larkin and published by Oneworld Academic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive and yet enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets. A revolutionary at heart and often imprisoned or forced into exile throughout his tumultuous life, al-Mutanabbi wrote both controversial satires and when employed by one of his many patrons, laudatory panegyrics. Employing an ornate style and use of the ode, al-Mutanabbi was one of the first to successfully move away from the traditionally rigid form of Arabic verse, the ‘qasida’.

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317832361
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.

Abundance from the Desert

Author : Raymond Farrin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650957
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Abundance from the Desert written by Raymond Farrin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context. Together, the selected poems suggest the range and depth of classical Arabic poetic expression; read in sequence, they suggest the gradual evolution of a tradition. Moving beyond a mere chronicle, Farrin outlines a new approach to appreciating classical Arabic poetry based on an awareness of concentric symmetry, in which the poem’s unity is viewed not as a linear progression but as an elaborate symmetrical plot. In doing so, the author presents these works in a broader, comparative light, revealing connections with other literatures. The reader is invited to examine these classical Arabic works not as isolated phenomena—notwithstanding their uniqueness and their association with a discrete tradition—but rather as part of a great multicultural heritage. This pioneering book marks an important step forward in the study of Arabic poetry. At the same time, it opens the door to this rich tradition for the general reader.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006)

Author : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351668137
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) written by Josef Meri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.