"The sixth/twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes as he is known in Latin, cites the following early Islamic-era verse in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. In it, the poet describes having a conversation with his fellow caravan travelers on camelback …
"The sixth/twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes as he is known in Latin, cites the following early Islamic-era verse in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. In it, the poet describes having a conversation with his fellow caravan travelers on camelback …
What makes language beautiful? Arabic Poetics offers an answer to what this pertinent question looked like at the height of the Islamic civilization. In this novel argument, Lara Harb suggests that literary quality depended on the ability of linguistic expression to produce an e…
"Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic lite…
"The sixth/twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes as he is known in Latin, cites the following early Islamic-era verse in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. In it, the poet describes having a conversation with his fellow caravan travelers on camelback …
"The sixth/twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes as he is known in Latin, cites the following early Islamic-era verse in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. In it, the poet describes having a conversation with his fellow caravan travelers on camelback …
Macaronic poetry is a kind of mixed-language verse emerging from the mediaeval European context, which also exists in the mediaeval Islamicate world. While examples of macaronic poetry existed in mediaeval Arabic literature, the phenomenon did not develop into a formal artistic …
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm Ṭabāṭabā, known as Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Ṭabāṭabā l-ʿAlawī al-Iṣfahānī (d. 322/934), was a well-known poet and literary critic. He is the author of one of the major early works on literary criticism in Arabic, titled ʿ Iyār al-shiʿr (“…
Zakī al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ẓāfir b. ʿAbdallāh al-Miṣrī al-ʿAdwānī (585/1189 or 589/1193 to 654/1256), known as Ibn Abī l-Iṣbaʿ , was a well known Egyptian poet and littérateur. He is the author of works on poetry, literary criticism, and the Qurʾā…