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Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on the written dimensions of the tradition. That emphasis, argues Samer Ali, has neglected the interplay of oral and written, as well as of religious and secular knowledge in salon society, and the surprising ways in which these seemingly discrete categories blurred in the lived experience of participants. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250, and using methods from European medieval studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology, Ali interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. He identifies salons not only as sites for socializing and educating, but as loci for performing literature and oral history; for creating and transmitting cultural identity; and for continually reinterpreting the past. A fascinating recovery of a key element of humanistic culture, Ali’s work will encourage a recasting of our understanding of verbal art, cultural memory, and daily life in medieval Arab culture.
Al-Muʾayyad Al-Shīrāzī and Fatimid Daʿwa Poetry
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Qutbuddin, Tahera
in
1077 or 1078-Criticism and interpretation
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Islamic poetry, Arabic-History and criticism
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Muʼayyad fī al-Dīn Hibat Allāh ibn Mūsá
2005
This study analyzes the committed religio-political poetry of al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī, chief missionary for the Fatimids in the fifth/eleventh century, demonstrating his founding of the tradition of \"Fatimid daʿwa (religious mission) poetry\" that has flourished after him for a thousand years.
Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel Egypt , 1892–2008
2012
A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt.
Carmen quod cecinit Taabbata Scharran vel Chelph Elahmar in vindictae sanguinis et fortitudinis laudem : Arabice et Suelthice : quam consens. ampliss. fac. philos. lundens.,
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Bolmeer, B. M. (Bengt Magnus) author
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تأبط شرا، ثابت بن جابر بن سفيان، توفي حوالي 540
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Islamic poetry, Arabic History and criticism
1834
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The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword
2018,2017
In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihad against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam's holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.