7 Ergebnisse.

This study deals with the most radical of the badīʿ ("novel") poets of the ʿAbbāsid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badīʿ theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Abū Tammām's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the Ḥamāsah.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Throughout the classical Arabic literary tradition, from its roots in pre-Islamic Arabia until the end of the Golden Age in the 10th century, the courtly ode, or qasida, dominated other poetic forms. In The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy, Suzanne Stetkevych explores how this poetry relates to ceremony and political authority and how the classical Arabic ode encoded and promoted a myth and ideology of legitimate Arabo-Islamic rule. Beginning wit...

Quite simply: these are seminal essays.... Distinguishedscholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persianpoetry." -- Omar Pound"(This book) reads Arabic andPersian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way.... raises ourunderstanding... to a new level." -- James T.MonroeInnovative methodologies reorient critical readings ofclassical Middle Eastern literature.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Her books include The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode, Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, and The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad.

Includes passages translated into English.