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Author : Emily Selove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : 1474418783
This study compares 'Ḥikāyat', a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : Emily Selove
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Classical
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474426387
"?ik?yat Abu al-Q?sim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd?, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab? al-Q?sim, who shows up uninvited at a party in Isfahan. Dressed as a holy man and reciting religious poetry, he soon relaxes his demeanour, and, growing intoxicated on wine, insults the other dinner guests and their Iranian hometown. Widely hailed as a narrative unique in the history of Arabic literature, ?ik?yah also reflects a much larger tradition of banquet texts. Painting a picture of a party-crasher who is at once a holy man and a rogue, he is a figure familiar to those who have studied the ancient cynic tradition or other portrayals of wise fools, tricksters and saints in literatures from the Mediterranean and beyond. This study therefore compares ?ik?yah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, both from contemporary Arabic literature and from Ancient Greece and Rome."
Author : Julie Scott Meisami,Paul Starkey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415185726
This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.
Author : Monique Bernards
Publisher : Gibb Memorial Trust
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780906094983
Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abb?sids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abb?sids helped to create carried forth the torch of knowledge lit by ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Persia. Adding many of their own unique contributions, the Abb?sid dynasty left an indelible mark on the history of humankind. This current selection of ?Abb?sid Studies presents a colourful mosaic of new research into classical Arabic texts that sheds light on significant historical, political, cultural and religious aspects of the ?Abb?sid era and provides insight into how the fundamentals of philology are shaped. Wonderful vistas of ancient dreams open up while ?Abb?sid armies clatter and collide; images are conjured of murderous caliphs, foreign looking littérateurs and talking objects. We see a lively self portrait of a scholar struggling with the presentation of his own image and a Persian courtier on exploratory missions around the globe obtaining eyewitness testimony of the wonders of the world. We learn of magic pools, all-seeing mirrors, the kidnapping of a lute-playing shepherd; a Baghdadi party-pooper at an Isfahani social gathering monopolising all participants with an amazing speech until the narrator drunkenly passes out on the floor, and much more. ?Abb?sid Studies IV is the latest contribution to the new series of The Occasional Papers of the School of ?Abb?sid Studies. The contributors to this book are David Bennett, Amikam Elad, Antonella Ghersetti, Joseph Lowry, Letizia Osti, Ignacio Sanchez, Emily Selove, John Turner, Johan Weststeijn, and Travis Zadeh.
Author : Emilie Savage-Smith,Simon Swain,Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545564
An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.
Author : Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9004045023
Author : Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231146340
In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand and One Nights as facile popular literature, and liberal views disregard the rich Islamic context of the text. Approaching the text with a fresh and unbiased eye, al-Musawi reads the tales against Islamic schools of thought and theology and recovers persuasive historical evidence to reveal the cultural and religious struggle over Islam that drives the book's narrative tension and binds its seemingly fragmented stories. Written by a number of authors over a stretch of centuries, The Thousand and One Nights depicts a burgeoning, urban Islamic culture in all its variety and complexity. As al-Musawi demonstrates, the tales document their own places and periods of production, reflecting the Islamic individual's growing exposure to a number of entertainments and temptations and their conflict with the obligations of faith. Aimed at a diverse audience, these stories follow a narrative arc that begins with corruption and ends with redemption, conforming to a paradigm that concurs with the sociological and religious concerns of Islam and the Islamic state. By emphasizing Islam in his analysis of these entertaining and instructional tales, al-Musawi not only illuminates the work's consistent equation between art and life, but he also sheds light on its underlying narrative power. His study offers a brilliant portrait of medieval Islam as well, especially its social, political, and economic institutions and its unique practices of storytelling.
Author : Sharon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004661561
Author : Bosworth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004659452
Author : American Libraries Book Procurement Center, Cairo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Arabic imprints
ISBN : WISC:89127000362
Author : Wolfhart Heinrichs,Gregor Schoeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arabic poetry
ISBN : UVA:X002573998
Author : Franz Rosenthal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004270893
In Man versus Society in Medieval Islam, Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) investigates the tensions and conflicts that existed between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history. The book brings together works spanning fifty years: the monographs The Muslim Concept of Freedom, The Herb. Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society (Brill, 1971), Gambling in Islam (Brill, 1975), and Sweeter than Hope. Complaint and Hope in Medieval Islam (Brill,1983), along with all the articles on unsanctioned practices, sexuality, and institutional learning. Reprinted here together for the first time, they constitute the most extensive collection of source material on all these themes from all genres of Arabic writing, judiciously translated and analyzed. No other study to date presents the panorama of medieval Muslim societies in their manifold aspects in as detailed, comprehensive, and illuminating a manner.
Author : Shmuel Moreh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001746994
Author : Franz Rosenthal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004659520
Author : Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : UVA:X004198296