Approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies / edited by Bilal Orfali, Nadia Maria El Cheikh.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, editor.

El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria, editor.

Conference Name:

Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies (Conference) (2018 : American University of Beirut)

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; 0929-2403 180.

Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; 180

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--750-1258--History and criticism--Congresses.

Arabic literature.

Anthologies--Congresses.

Anthologies.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature. Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel Toral"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Compilation, Authorship, and Readership. The 'Iqd al-farīd by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic / Isabel Toral

"I Begin with the Kings:" Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassām's al-Dhakhīra / Enass Khansa

Towards a Reconstruction of Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī's K. Abyāt al-ma'ānī / David Larsen

A House in Words: Al-Ghuzūlī as Author's Alternate / Boutheina Khaldi

Pleasure. Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in 'Alī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib's Jawāmi' al-ladhdha / Jeremy Kurzyniec

Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnāsh al-Ḥā'ik: A Study in Social Codicology / Carl Davila

Religion and Education. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying / Lyall Armstrong

Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) 'Uyūn al-akhbār as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating "Religion" and Piety / Hans-Peter Pökel

Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqāmas of Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 485/1092) / Matthew L. Keegan

Geography. The Faḍāʼil of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies / Suleiman A. Mourad

Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of 'Umāra al-Yamanī (d. 569/1174) in the Kharīdat al-qaṣr / Nathaniel A. Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies

ISBN:

9789004459083

9004459081

OCLC:

1228031038