Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / Samer M. Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ali, Samer M.

Series:

Poetics of orality and literacy.

Poetics of orality and literacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism.

Arabic poetry.

Salons--Islamic Empire.

Salons.

Oral tradition--Islamic Empire.

Oral tradition.

Islamic Empire--Intellectual life.

Islamic Empire.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages is a unique contribution to understanding how poetry and literature were received in medieval Islam.

Contents:

Introduction

Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat

Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly

Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition

The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity

Al-Buhṭurī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat

Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative

Conclusion.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268074975

0268074976

9780268074654

0268074658

OCLC:

794925469