All the world is awry : Al-Ma'arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, revisited / R. Kevin Lacey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lacey, R. Kevin, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī.

Islamic civilization.

Luzūmīyāt (Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Includes text in Arabic.

Summary:

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī (973-1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration

Part One

One The Man: A Bibliographical Sketch of Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī

Two The Milieu

A. The Fāṭimids

B. The ?amdanids and Mirdasids

C. The Būyids (a.k.a. Buwayhids)

Additional Geopolitical Groupings and States in the Islamicate World of the Ninth through the Tenth Centuries CE

The Carmathians (Qarāmiṭah/القرامطة)

Al-Zaydiyyah Shī‛ites

The ‛Alawiyyah (Alawites), a.k.a. al-Nuṣayriyyah (Nuṣayrīs)

The Ṣaffārids

The Sāmānids

The Ghaznavids (976-1186 CE)

The Umayyads in Spain

Part II. Major Socio-Intellectual Currents and Discourses in the Islamicate Community before and during the Age of al-Ma‛arrī

Kalām/كلام

Falsafah/فلسفة

Al-Kindī (c. 801-73 CE)

Al-Rāzī (d. 935 CE)

Al-Fārābī (d. 950)

Ibn Sīnā

The Brethren of Purity or Sincere Brethren (إخوان الصفاء)

Taṣawwuf/تصوف

Sharī‛ah-Driven Ritual Piety/Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamā‛ah/أهل السنة والجماعة

Adab

Part Two

Three The Medium: Reading and Interpreting Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam in Light of Its Literary Character

Transcending the Contradictions and Other Challenging Features of Luzūm

Four The Message

I. Humankind as Viewed in the Luzūm

II. Humankind and God: Al-Ma‛arrī's Religious Philosophy

Part III. Humankind Interacting with Humankind: Al-Ma‛arrī's Social and Political Views in Luzūm

The Family

Society in General

Various Typically Influential Individuals in al-Ma‛arrī's Society

People of State

Learned Class

Part IV. Humankind and the Totality of Being: Al-Ma‛arrī's Perception of the Make-Up and Dynamics of the Universe

The Planets

Part V. Humankind as It Ought to Be: Al-Ma‛arrī's Ethics in the Luzūm

Notes

Principle Works Cited or Consulted

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438479460

1438479468