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The Zephyrs of Najd
Author | : Jaroslav Stetkevych |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1993-12-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0226773353 |
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Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib) of the classic Arab code, or qusidah. In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in Arabo-Islamic mystical poetry, into expressions of spiritual nostalgia. Stetkevych also draws intriguing parallels between the highlands of Najd in Arabic poetry and Arcadia in the European tradition. He concludes by exploring the degree to which the pastoral-paradisiacal archetype of the nasib pervades Arabic literary perception, from the pre-Islamic ode through the Thousand and One Nights and later texts. Enhanced by Stetkevych's sensitive translations of all the Arabic texts discussed, The Zephyrs of Najd brings the classical Arabic ode fully into the purview of contemporary literary and critical discourse.
Iberian Jewish Literature
Author | : Jonathan P. Decter |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780253116956 |
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This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
Arabic Literary Thresholds
Author | : Muhsin Al-Musawi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789047430339 |
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This book provides a very synthetic view of Arabic literature within the field of social sciences and the humanities. It demonstrates an actual shift in the study of Arabic literature and directs attention to new dimensions and perspectives.
Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language And Literature
Author | : J R Smart,J. R. Smart |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136788055 |
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Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.
On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature
Author | : Philip F. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Arabic fiction |
ISBN | : 3447051825 |
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Proceedings from a workshop in medieval Arabic literature, April 21-22, 2000.
The Arabic Literary Heritage
Author | : Roger Allen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2005-10-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521485258 |
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Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present day. Allen's organising principle is not that of traditional literary histories, but is rather based on an account of the major genres of Arabic literature. After introductory chapters on principles and contexts, there are chapters devoted to the Qur'an as literature, poetry, belletristic prose, drama and criticism. Within each chapter the emphasis is on the texts themselves, and those who created and commented on them, but Allen also demonstrates his awareness of recent Western theoretical and critical approaches. The volume as a whole, which contains extensive quotations in English translation, a chronology and a guide to further reading, makes a major non-Western literary tradition newly accessible to students and scholars of the West.
Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry
Author | : Zion Zohar |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814797068 |
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Sephardic Jews have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers, poets, biblical commentators, Talmudic and Halachic scholars, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development of Jewish mysticism. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry brings together original work from the world's leading scholars to present a deep introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years.
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel
Author | : Wen-chin Ouyang |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748655724 |
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Explores the work of novelists including Naguib Mahfouz, 'Abd al-Khaliq al-Rikabi, Jamal al-Ghitani, Ben Salem Himmich, Ali Mubarak, Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish and Nizar Qabbani to show how the development of the Arabic novel has created a politics of nostal