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The Life and Times of Abu Tammam translated by Beatrice Gruendler ; foreword by Terence Cave ; volume editors, James E. Montgomery, Tahera Qutbuddin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947, author.
- Series:
- Library of Arabic literature
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842.
- Poets, Arab.
- Poets, Arab--750-1258--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2018
- Language Note:
- In English and Arabic.
- Summary:
- A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both highly controversial and extremely popular, this sophisticated verse influenced all subsequent poetry in Arabic and epitomized the “modern style” (badi'), an avant-garde aesthetic that was very much in step with the intellectual, artistic, and cultural vibrancy of the Abbasid dynasty.In The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, translated into English for the first time, the courtier and scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli (d. 335 or 336/946 or 947) mounts a robust defense of “modern” poetry and of Abu Tammam’s significance as a poet against his detractors, while painting a lively picture of literary life in Baghdad and Samarra. Born into an illustrious family of Turkish origin, al-Suli was a courtier, companion, and tutor to the Abbasid caliphs. He wrote extensively on caliphal history and poetry and, as a scholar of “modern” poets, made a lasting contribution to the field of Arabic literary history. Like the poet it promotes, al-Suli’s text is groundbreaking: it represents a major step in the development of Arabic poetics, and inaugurates a long line of treatises on innovation in poetry.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Notes to the introduction
- Al-Ṣūlī’s Epistle to Abū l-Layth Muzāḥim ibn Fātik
- The Life and Times of Abū Tammām
- Notes
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Risālat Abī Bakr al-Ṣūlī ilá Muzāḥim ibn Fātik. English.
- Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Akhbār Abī Tammām. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-7469-8
- OCLC:
- 1227050213
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