Browning Upon Arabia (eBook)

Hédi A. Jaouad is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Skidmore College, USA. He is also the author of Limitless Undying Love: The Ballad of John and Yoko & The Brownings (2015), The Brownings’ Shadow at Yaddo (2014), and Browningmania, America’s Love for Robert Browning (2016). He is the editor of Revue CELAAN, a journal dedicated to the promotion of North African literature and art.

1.      Introduction: Browning Upon Arabia

 

Part I: Browning And The Arabesque



2.      Browning and the Arabesque

2.1  The East in Browning’s Arabesque

2.2  The ‘Arab’ in Browning’s Arabesque

2.3  An Arabesque of Names

 

Part II:  Browning in Arabia



3.      Abd-el-Kadr, or ‘The Found Leader’

3.1 The Genesis

3.2 The Historical Code

3.3 The Political Code

3.4 The Hermeneutic Code: Kadr or Kader?

3.5 The Mystical Code

3.6 Rider, Writer, Reader

 

4.      Browning and Ancient Arabic Poetry

4.1 The ‘Transmigration’ of Rajaz to Anapest

 

5.      Muléykeh: A Sufi Parable

5.1  How To Love A Horse

5.2  Muléykeh through ‘the Persian Sofi’s Eye’

 

 

Part III: The Return of the (Repressed) East



6.  The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between

6.1 ‘Throw All Prejudice Aside’

6.2 On the Druse Trail: From Browning to Disraeli

6.3 Dreux or Druse?

6.4 Djabal: Betwixt Hamlet and Othello

 

7.  Luria: The Second Coming of the Moor 

7.1 Portrait of the Moor as the ‘Inevitable Foe’

7.2 Luria Is No Othello

7.3 ‘To be ‘where’ not to be / Is perhaps also the question’

7.4 The Wall and the Trace

7.5 The Prophet’s Bride

7.6 ‘I Will Forestall Them’

7.7 A Renaissance-Moorish Moment

 

Part IV: A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes

8. A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes

8.1 The Arab Hakeem: An Avicennean Reading of An Epistle

8.2 The Andalusian Rabbi: Another Renaissance Moment

8.3 The Persian Dervish: A Barmecidal Feast

 

9. Conclusion: An Incipient Arabism?