The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-49927-0 (ISBN)
Suzanne Pickney Stetkevych, Ph.D. (1981), The University of Chicago, is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Her publications on Classical Arabic poetry include The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muḥammad (2010).
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction
Introduction: Approaching Saqṭ al-Zand: The Poetics of Engagement
Part 1 The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qaṣīdah
1 A Long Night’s Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys
1 Introduction
2 Section I: Nocturnes, or Lyric ‘Fragments’
3 Section II: A Master Qaṣīdah with Nocturnal Raḥīl: A Long Night’s Journey into Day
2 Performative Poetics: The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense
1 Introduction
2 Section I: The Art of Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 15 Mīmiyyah
3 Section II: The Art of Self-Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 16 Lāmiyyah
3 The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance
1 Introduction
2 The Cooing of the Dove: Saqṭ al-Zand 43 Dāliyyah, Rithā’ to a Ḥanafī faqīh, Abū Ḥamzah
3 The Cawing of the Crow: Saqṭ al-Zand 60 Fāʾiyyah, Rithāʾ to al-Sharīf al-Ṭāhir al-Mūsawī
4 Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia
1 Introduction
2 SZ 58: Our Camels’ Yearning
3 Saqṭ al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisrā and Tubbaʿ
Part 2 Stylistic Poetics and Postclassical Aesthetics
Introduction: Approaching Al-Luzūmiyyāt: The Poetics of Disengagement and Poetry as Programmatic Project
5 Irony, Archeology, and ‘Stopping at the Ruins’: Two Readings of the Ṭasmū Luzūmiyyah
1 Introduction
2 Section I: Irony, Archeology, and Stopping at the Ruins
3 Section II: Lexical Exile and the Tyranny of the Rhyme
4 Conclusion
6 Labīd, ʿAbīd, and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of the Poetic Past in Al-Luzūmiyyāt
1 Introduction
2 Conclusion
Conclusion: Beyond the Great Divide
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; 43 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 788 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-49927-X / 900449927X |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-49927-0 / 9789004499270 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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