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The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Sarah R. bin Tyeer (Autor)

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306 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-59988-9 (ISBN)

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This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of “decontextualisation” and the “untranslatable.” This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as One Thousand and One Nights and The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin’s aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.

Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Sarah R. bin Tyeer is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK. Her recent publications include essays in the volumes: Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Classical Literary Tradition, The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, and The City in Premodern and Modern Arabic Literature. Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

INTRODUCTION

Part I The Hermeneutics of the Qurʾan for the Arts: Key Terms

Chapter 1 Ḥusn: The Route to a Conceptual Query

Chapter 2 Qubḥ and the Way to Hell

Chapter 3 Hell and the Aesthetics of qubḥ

Chapter 4 Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech

Part II Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights

Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Reason

Chapter 6 Of Misplacement of Things, People and Decorum

Chapter 7 The Transgression of Reason

Part III Canonical Literature

Chapter 8 Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful

Chapter 9 The Littérateurs of Hell and Heaven

Coda: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; XV, 306 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	5207 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-137-59988-X / 113759988X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-59988-9 / 9781137599889
Zustand	Neuware