Abbasid Belles Lettres

Abbasid Belles Lettres

by Ashtiany, Julia Johnstone, T. M., (Thomas M.) Latham, J. D., (John Derek) Serjeant, R. B., (Robert Bertram)

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This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD. 'Abbasid literature was characterised by the emergence of many new genres and of a scholarly and sophisticated critical consciousness. This volume deals chronologically with the main genres and provides extended studies of major poets, pros…

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  • Full title :Abbasid Belles Lettres / edited by Julia Ashtiany, T.M. Johnstone, J.D. Latham, R.B. Serjeant.

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This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD. 'Abbasid literature was characterised by the emergence of many new genres and of a scholarly and sophisticated critical consciousness. This volume deals chronologically with the main genres and provides extended studies of major poets, prose-writers and literary theorists. It concludes with a comprehensive survey of the relatively unknown literature of the Yemen to appear in a European language since the manuscript discoveries of recent years. To make the material accessible to non-specialist readers, 'Abbasid authors are quoted in English translation wherever possible, and clear explanations of their literary techniques and conventions are provided. With chapters by leading specialists from the Middle East, Europe and America, the volume represents a wide cross-section of current academic opinion.

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  • Publication Date:1990.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (536 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781139424905, 1139424904, 9780521240161, 0521240166, 9780521088657, 0521088658
  • oclc:ocn828743375
  • LC Classification:PJ7530
  • Dewey Decimal:892/.7/090034

Table of Contents

Adab and the concept of belles-lettres by S. A. Bonebakker -- Shuūbiyyah in Arabic literature by H. T. Norris -- Ibn al-Muqaffa and early Abbasid prose by J. D. Latham -- Al-Jāḥiẓ by C. Pellat -- Al-Ṣaḥib Ibn Abbād by C. Pellat -- Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī by M. Bergé -- Al-Hamadhānī, al-Ḥarīrī and the maqāmāt genre by A.F.L. Beeston -- Fables and legends by H. T. Norris -- Abbasid poetry and its antecedents by M. M. Badawi -- Hunting poetry (ṭardiyjāt) by G. Rex Smith -- Political poetry by R. Rubinacci -- Love poetry (ghazal) by A. Hamori -- Wine poetry (khamriyyāt) by F. Harb -- Mystical poetry by M. Lings -- Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt) by A. Hamori -- Bashshār b. Burd, Abū l-Atāhiyah and Abū Nuwās by G. Schoeler -- Al-Mutanabbī by A. Hamori -- Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī by Abdullah El Tayib -- Abū Alā al-Maarrī by Aishah Abd al-Rahman -- Literary criticism by K. Abu Deeb -- Ibn al-Mutazz and Kitāb al-Badī by Bonebakker -- Regional literature: Egypt by S. M. Ayyad -- Regional literature: the Yemen by A. El-Shami and R. B. Serjeant.

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Subjects

Arabic literature Arabic literature -- History and critic… Criticism, interpretation, etc Littérature arabe -- Histoire et critiq…

Writers

Ashtiany, Julia Johnstone, T. M., (Thomas M.) Latham, J. D., (John Derek) Serjeant, R. B., (Robert Bertram)

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