Browning upon Arabia : a moveable East / Hédi A. Jaouad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdel-Jaouad, Hédi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889--Knowledge and learning--Arab countries.

Browning, Robert.

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Arab countries.

Art.

Physical Description:

xvii, 240 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Browning upon Arabia

References

pt. I Browning and the Arabesque

2. Browning and the Arabesque

2.1. The East in Browning's Arabesque

2.2. The 'Arab' in Browning's Arabesque

2.3. An Arabesque of Names

pt. II Browning in Arabia

3. Abd-El-Kadr, or 'The Found Leader'

3.1. The Genesis

3.2. The Historical Code

3.3. The Political Code

3.4. The Hermeneutic Code: Kadr or Kader?

3.5. The Mystical Code

3.6. Rider, Writer, Reader

4. Browning and Ancient Arabic Poetry

4.1. The 'Transmigration' of Rajaz to Anapest

5. Muleykeh: A Sufi Parable

5.1. How to Love a Horse

5.2. Muleykeh Through 'the Persian Sofi's Eye'

pt. III The Return of the (Repressed) East

6. The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between

6.1. 'Throw All Prejudice Aside'

6.2. On the Druse Trail: From Browning to Disraeli

6.3. Dreux or Druse?

6.4. Djabal: Betwixt Hamlet and Othello

7. Luna: The Second Coming of the Moor

7.1. Portrait of the Moor as the 'Inevitable Foe'

7.2. Luria Is no Othello

7.3. 'To Be 'Where' Not to Be / Is Perhaps Also the Question'

7.4. The Wall and the Trace

7.5. The Prophet's Bride

7.6. 'I Will Forestall Them'

7.7. A Renaissance-Moorish Moment

pt. IV A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes

8. Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes

8.1. The Arab Hakeem: An Avicennean Reading of an Epistle

8.2. The Andalusian Rabbi: Another Renaissance Moment

8.3. The Persian Dervish: A Barmecidal Feast

9. Conclusion: An Incipient Arabism?

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.

ISBN:

3319926470

9783319926476

OCLC:

1033525366