Al-Muʾayyad Al-Shīrāzī And Fatimid Daʿwa Poetry: A Case of Commitment in Classical Arabic Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14103-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 939 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi was a medieval Arabic-Islamic scholar and poet committed to the Fatimid religio-political ideology. Chief missionary for their Caliph-Imams, he founded the dynamic tradition of "Fatimid da'wa (religious mission) poetry” that flourished after him for a thousand years through the succeeding Tayyibi da'wa and continues to thrive today.
This study examines the manner in which al-Mu'ayyad's mission informed the aesthetic rules, motifs, structures, genres, motives, addressees, and aspirations of his poetry. It analyzes the characteristics of al-Mu'ayyad's verse that render it distinctive, above all, its use of a unique form of esoteric tawil-based religious symbolism—metaphor, in fact, as manifestation, where what appears to be metaphor is the theological reality of the Imam. This book features a large number of original translations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qutbuddin, Tahera

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Tahera Qutbuddin, Ph.D. (1999) in Arabic Literature, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago.