The cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow : late Abbāsid poetics in Abū al-'Alā' al-Ma'arrī's Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam / by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, author.

Series:

Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 1571-5183 v. 43.

Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; volume 43

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Saqṭ al-zand.

Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī.

Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Luzūmīyāt.

Poetics.

Luzūmīyāt (Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 380 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late Abbasid master-poet, Abu al-Ala al-Ma arri (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqt al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qasidah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzum Ma La Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Saqt al-Zand; The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qasidah

Introduction: Approaching Saqt al-Zand: The Poetics of Engagement

1. A Long Night's Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys

1. Introduction

1.1. The Night Journey in the Classical Arabic Poetic Tradition

2. Section I: Nocturnes, or Lyric `Fragments'

3. Section II: A Master Qasidah with Nocturnal Rahii. A Long Night's Journey into Day: Saqt al-Zand 14 Nuniyyah

3.1. Naslb and Nocturnal Rahll (ll. 1-18)

3.2. Coming to Water at Daybreak (ll.19-23)

3.3. Madih of Abu Ibrahim, 'Allibn AbiTalib, and Ahl al-Bayt (ll.24-43)

3.4. Poetic Response (44-53)

3.5. Religious Rank and RahTl Closure (ll.53/54-62)

2. Performative Poetics: The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense

2. Section I: The Art of Defense: Saqt al-Zand 15 Mlmiyyah

2.1. Poetry and the Obligation of Repaying Praise (11.1-17)

2.2. A Qasidah within a Qasidah (ll. 78-59)

2.3. Praise, Vindication, and Vatic Pronouncement (ll. 60-74)

3. Section n: The Art of Self-Defense: Saqt al-Zand 16 Lamiyyah

3.1. Movement 1: Protest, Despair, and Vindication (ll.1-24)

3.2. Movement u: Celebratory Night-Journey and Boast (ll.25-41)

3. The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance

2. The Cooing of the Dove: Saqt al-Zand

Daliyyah, Ritha' to a Hanafi faqih, Abu Hamzah

2.1. Introduction: Treading on the Dead (ll.1-16)

2.2. Lamentation: The Cooing of the Dove (ll. 17-22)

2.3. Eulogy (ll.23-30)

2.4. Farewell and Burial (ll.31-34)

2.5. The Futility of Mourning and Inevitability of Death: The Example of Solomon (ll.35-41)

2.6. The Poet's Valediction and Elegy (ll.42-53)

2.7. Closure: Consolation and Meditation of the Inevitability and Meaning of Death (ll.54-64)

3. The Cawing of the Crow: Saqt al-Zand 60 Fa'iyyah, Ritha' to al-Sharif al-Tahir al-Musawi

3.1. Elegy of al-Sharif al-Tahir (ll.1-39)

3.2. Madih for al-Sharif al-Radi and at-Sharlf al-Murtada (ll.40-68)

4. Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia

2. SZ 58: Our Camels' Yearning

2.1. Movement I(A): The Lightning-Flash and Longing: Our Camels' Passion (ll.1-31)

2.2. Movement I(B): Nocturnal Torment and the Beloved's Tears (ll.32-41)

2.3. Movement II: The Poet's Apologia (ll.42-51)

3. Saqt al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisra and Tubba'

3.1. Nasib: Abodes, Crows, and the Phantom of the Beloved (ll.1-16)

3.2. Rahil: The Camels, the Night, the Desert (ll.17-47)

3.3. Excursus on Poetic Language

3.4. Madih: Greeting, Longing, Praise, and Affection (ll.48-64)

pt. 2 Al-Luzumiyyat: Stylistic Poetics and Postclassical Aesthetics

Introduction: Approaching Al-Luzumiyyat. The Poetics of Disengagement and Poetry as Programmatic Project

5. Irony, Archeology, and `Stopping at the Ruins': Two Readings of the Tasmu Luzumiyyah

2. Section I: Irony, Archeology, and Stopping at the Ruins

3. Section II: Lexical Exile and the Tyranny of the Rhyme

4. Conclusion

6. Labid, 'Abid, and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of the Poetic Past in Al-Luzumiyyat

2. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney. Cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow

ISBN:

9789004499270

900449927X

OCLC:

1302576556