The beloved in Middle Eastern literatures : the culture of love and languishing / edited by Alireza Korangy, Hanadi Al-Samman, Michael Beard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Samman, Hanadi, editor.

Beard, Michael, active 2017, editor.

Korangy, Alireza, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love in literature.

Middle Eastern literature--History and criticism.

Middle Eastern literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its classical, modern and postmodern manifestations, taking into account the different sexual orientations and forms of desire expressed. From the pre-Islamic 'Udhri (romantic unrequited love), to the erotic same-sex love in thirteenth century poetry and prose, the divine Sufi reflections on the topic, and post-revolutionary love encounters in Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures connects the affective and cultural with the political and the obscene. In focusing on the diverse manifestations of love and tropes of the lover/beloved binary, this book is unique in foregrounding what is often regarded as a 'taboo subject' in the region. The multi-faceted outlook reveals the variety of philological, philosophical, poetic and literary forms that treat this significant motif."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Dedication

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Beloved: Love and Languishing in Middle Eastern Writings

DANGEROUS LOVE. Chapter 1. Writing to the End of Love: Waḥīd and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-Rūmī / Sarah R bin Tyeer ; Chapter 2. Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North / Asaad Alsaleh ; Chapter 3. The Seduction of Fayrūz Baḥrī: The Affective Dimensions of Cultural Politics in Gamāl al-Ghīṭānī's Ḥikāyāt al-Khabī'a (2002) / Benjamin Koerber

DIVINE LOVE. Chapter 4. Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings / Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab ; Chapter 5. Reverence for the Beloved as a ReligiousMetaphor: A Study of Rajā'a 'Ālim's Ḥubbā (The Beloved) / Miral Mahgoub al-Tahawy

GENDER AND LOVE. Chapter 6. Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of Furūgh Farrukhzād / Dylan Oehler-Stricklin ; Chapter 7. Making Love through Scholarship in Jamīl Buthayna / Richard Serrano ; Chapter 8. Jahān Malik Khātūn: Gender, Canon, and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess / Domenico Ingenito

EROTIC LOVE. Chapter 9. Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic Compendium / Pernilla Myrne ; Chapter 10. Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltan's Revolution Street / Paul Sprachman ; Chapter 11. Tempting the Theologian: The "Cure" of Wine's Seduction / Christine N Kalleeny

DIALECTICAL LOVE. Chapter 12. Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition / Mehmet Karabela ; Chapter 13. The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the Ḥubb Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies / AZ Obiedat

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350988484

1350988480

9781786722263

1786722267

OCLC:

1114396989