Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45908-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.

Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel Toral

Autoren/Hrsg.

El Cheikh, Nadia Maria

Orfali, Bilal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Compilation, Authorship, and Readership

1 The ?Iqd al-farid by Ibn ?Abd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic

Isabel Toral

2 “I Begin with the Kings:” Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassam’s al-Dhakhira

Enass Khansa

3 Towards a Reconstruction of Abu Na?r al-Bahili’s K. Abyat al-ma?ani

David Larsen

4 A House in Words: Al-Ghuzuli as Author’s Alternate

Boutheina Khaldi

Part 2 Pleasure

5 Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ?Ali ibn Na?r al-Katib’s Jawami? al-ladhdha

Jeremy Kurzyniec

6 Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnash al-?a?ik: A Study in Social Codicology

Carl Davila

Part 3 Religion and Education

7 Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying

Lyall Armstrong

8 Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba’s (d. 276/889) ?Uyun al-akhbar as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating “Religion” and Piety

Hans-Peter Pökel

9 Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqamas of Ibn Naqiya (d. 485/1092)

Matthew L. Keegan

Part 4 Geography

10 The Fa?a?il of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies

Suleiman A. Mourad

11 Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ?Umara al-Yamani (d. 569/1174) in the Kharidat al-qa?r*

Nathaniel A. Miller

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bilal Orfali is Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut. He previously held the M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies at Ohio State University. He specializes in Arabic literature, Sufism, and quranic Studies.

Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History and Dean of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. She is a scholar of the Abbasid Caliphate and Byzantium, with women and gender as a focal point of her research.