The Qurʼan and adab : the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam / edited by Nuha Alshaar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Sha'ar, Nuha, editor.

Institute of Ismaili Studies, issuing body.

Series:

Qur'anic studies series ; 16.

Qur'anic studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Influence--Congresses.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Qurʼan--In literature.

Qurʼan--Language, style.

Qurʼan and literature.

Qurʼan as literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 636 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Relation of Adab to the Qur'an: Conceptual and Historical Framework / Nuha Alshaar

Section I. The Qur'an and Classical Arabic Poetry: Intertextuality and Sensibilities

2. The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing a Cultural Shift in Arab Late Antiquity/ Angelika Neuwirth

3. The Qur'an and the Character of Pre-Islamic Poetry: The Dāliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshalī (d. 600 CE)/ Ghassan El-Massri

4. Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an/ Beatrice Gruendler

Section II. The Qur'an in Literary Criticism

5. The Qur'an in Kitāb al-Badī' by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)/ Geert Jan van Gelder

6. 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'ālibī's (d. 429/1030) Kitāb al-Iqtibās min al-Qur'ān al-Karīm/ Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz

Section III. The Qur'an as a Moral, Literary and Aesthetic Model

7. The Place of the Qur'an in 'The Sermons and Exhortations' of Abū 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)/ Andrew Rippin

8. Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abū'l-'Alā' al-Ma'arrī's (d. 449/1058) al-Fucūl wa'l-Ghāyāt and Its Reception/ Devin Stewart

9. The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: $ikāyat Abī'l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī by Abū'l-Mumahhar al-Azdī (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)/ Sarah R. bin Tyeer

Part IV. Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies

10. Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khumba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions/ Tahera Qutbuddin

11. The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-$amīd b. Yaḥya al-Kātib (d. 132/750)/ Wadad al-Qadi

12. The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farīd by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940)/ Nuha Alshaar

13. Wisdom and Justice: The Reception of the Qur'an in Some Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes/ Louise Marlow

14. Solomon's Ring in the Arabic Literary Imaginary/ Wen-chin Ouyang

Part V. The Qur'an in Sufi Literature

15. Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abū Sa'īd al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899)/ Nada Saab

16. Ibn 'Arabī (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems/ Denis McAuley

17. 'Serving from Afar': Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an/ Steffen Stelzer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565 - 606) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198787181

0198787189

OCLC:

970393251

Publisher Number:

99971554473