Download or read book Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa Eulogy s Bounty Meaning s Abundance an anthology written by Stefan Sperl and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa written by Stefan Sperl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iraq written by Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive, thematically organised, bibliography devoted to Iraq is based on the full Index Islamicus database and is drawn from a wide variety of European-language journals and books. Featuring an extensive introduction to the subject and its literature by Peter Sluglett, this bibliography will help readers to find their way through the massive secondary literature now available. Following the pattern established by the Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included, as well as important internet resources. The editors have taken care to add much new material to bring its coverage up to date, and supplement the previously published volumes, while the most important and/or influential publications are conveniently highlighted in the introduction. An indispensable gateway for all those with a more than superficial interest in what is, and what has been, happening in this nation so much the focus of attention today.
Download or read book Kitab Al qabasat written by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād and published by Alhoda UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad 'Alawi's Sharoh Kitaab al-Qabasaat."
Download or read book Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eastern Luminaries Disclosed to Western Eyes written by Raja Lahiani and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies and evaluates the different translations of the Mu'allaqāt, seven canonical pre-Islamic odes, from Arabic into English and French. First, it introduces the Mu'allaqāt and the chief controversies related to their study in both Eastern and Western scholarship. It then presents the translators of the Mu'allaqāt and their translations and closes with two typologies of the translations and translators presented. A number of criteria for the evaluation of translations of poetry are developed. The book provides a comparative study of the English and French translations of the Mu'allaqāt with a focus on a number of communicative priorities in the source text, based on stylistic devices that require a sound awareness of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, the main setting of the Mu'allaqāt. The author assesses the reliability of the criteria of evaluation and the translatability of the Mu'allaqāt as a text that is remote from its translators in time, in place, and with respect to literary tradition.
Download or read book Singing with the Mountains written by William Sherman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would contend, however, the Roshaniyya attempted to make language do something that language should not do—infuse the semiotic with the divine. Their story thus ends in a tower of skulls, the proliferation of heresiographies that detailed the sins of the Roshaniyya, and new formations of “Afghan” identity. In Singing with the Mountains, William E. B. Sherman finds something extraordinary about the Roshaniyya, not least because the first known literary use of vernacular Pashto occurs in an eclectic, Roshani imitation of the Qur’an. The story of the Roshaniyya exemplifies a religious culture of linguistic experimentation. In the example of the Roshaniyya, we discover a set of questions and anxieties about the capacities of language that pervaded Sufi orders, imperial courts, groups of wandering ascetics, and scholastic networks throughout Central and South Asia. In telling this tale, Sherman asks the following questions: How can we make language shimmer with divine truth? How can letters grant sovereign power and form new “ethnic” identities and ways of belonging? How can rhyme bend our conceptions of time so that the prophetic past comes to inhabit the now of our collective moment? By analyzing the ways in which the Roshaniyya answered these types of questions—and the ways in which their answers were eventually rejected as heresies—this book offers new insight into the imaginations of religious actors in the late medieval and early modern Persianate worlds.
Download or read book Description in Classical Arabic Poetry written by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.
Download or read book Looking Back at al Andalus written by Alexander Elinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to Arab hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula.
Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Reuven Snir and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian formalism and its theoretical legacy, this framework offers flexible, transparent, and unbiased tools to understand the relevant contexts within the literary system. The aim is to enhance our understanding of Arabic literature, throw light on areas of literary production that traditionally have been neglected, and stimulate others to take up the fascinating challenge of mapping out and exploring them.
Download or read book Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa written by Stefan Sperl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
Download or read book The Poetics of Anti colonialism in the Arabic Qa dah written by Hussein N. Kadhim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the Arab literary response to European colonialism as articulated in the works of four leading twentieth-century poets: A?mad Shawq?, Ma?r?f al-Ru f?, Badr Sh?kir al-Sayy?b and ?Abd al-Wahh?b al-Bay?t?.
Download or read book Essays On Nima Yushij written by Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
Download or read book The Case of Rhyme versus Reason written by Robert McKinney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Rūmī (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History written by Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of the author's series Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents and analyses the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation in the area of Wādi ad-Dawāsir, south of Riyadh. The introduction focusses on the tribe's self-image and its symbiosis of Bedouin and sedentary strains; its internal social relations and its place in the surrounding tribal world; the impact of the Wahhābi movement and the Saudi state's historical efforts to control the tribes; and the store of legends that continues to shape its collective consciousness. It is followed by the Arabic text of the poems and narratives in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complimented by an extensive glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic text.
Download or read book Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia 3 Bedouin poets of the Daw sir tribe written by P. M. Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Daw sir Tribe written by Marcel Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in the author's series Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State. It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complemented by a substantial glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic Text, other glossaries and works on the Najdi dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arabic lexical materials.
