Abbasid literary criticism
Abu Tammam
Akiko Motoyoshi
Arabic
Arabic Language
Arabic Poetry
Beatrice Gruendler
Caliph Al Mutawakkil
Camel Stallion
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ceremonial poetry interpretation
Classical Arabic Poetry
Classical Islamic World
Dana Sajdi
Early Arabic Poetry
Early Islamic Poetry
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genre typology ghazal
Ibn Al Mu
Ibn Qutayba
Ibn Surayj
J.E. Bencheikh
James T. Monroe
Jaroslav Stetkevych
Julie Scott Meisami
M.M. Badawi
Male Camel
Michael A. Sells
Panegyric Poetry
philological study Arabic verse
Poet's Camel
Poet’s Camel
pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Pre-Islamic Poet
pre-Islamic Poetry
qasida structure analysis
Renate Jacobi
rhetorical devices poetry
ritual poetic performance
Sand Grouse
Stefan Sperl
Vice Versa
Wild Ass
Wild Cows
Wine Poems
Yaseen Noorani
Zuhayr Ibn
Product details
- ISBN 9780860787204
- Weight: 808g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca. 500-1000 C.E.), published over the last thirty-five years; the individual articles each deal with a different approach, period, genre, or theme. The major focus is on new interpretations of the form and function of the pre-eminent classical poetic genre, the polythematic qasida, or Arabic ode, particularly explorations of its ritual, ceremonial and performance dimensions. Other articles present the typology and genre characteristics of the short monothematic forms, especially the lyrical ghazal and the wine-poem. After thus setting out the full poetic genres and their structures, the volume turns in the remaining studies to the philological, rhetorical, stylistic and motival elements of classical Arabic poetry, in their etymological, symbolic, historical and comparatist dimensions. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych's Introduction places the articles within the context of the major critical and methodological trajectories of the field and in doing so demonstrates the increasing integration of Arabic literary studies into contemporary humanistic scholarship. The Selected Bibliography complements the Introduction and the Articles to offer the reader a full overview of the past generation of Western literary and critical scholarship on classical Arabic poetry.
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
