Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies

Description

Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature. Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel Toral ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Acknowledgements ‎Figures and Tables ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Part 1. Compilation, Authorship, and Readership ‎Chapter 1. The ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic (Toral) ‎Chapter 2. “I Begin with the Kings”: Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassām’s al-Dhakhīra (Khansa) ‎Chapter 3. Towards a Reconstruction of Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī’s K. Abyāt al-maʿānī (Larsen) ‎Chapter 4. A House in Words: Al-Ghuzūlī as Author’s Alternate (Khaldi) ‎Part 2. Pleasure ‎Chapter 5. Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib’s Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha (Kurzyniec) ‎Chapter 6. Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik: A Study in Social Codicology (Davila) ‎Part 3. Religion and Education ‎Chapter 7. Ibn Abī l-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying (Armstrong) ‎Chapter 8. Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba’s (d. 276/889) ʿUyūn al-akhbār as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating “Religion” and Piety (Pökel) ‎Chapter 9. Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqāmas of Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 485/1092) (Keegan) ‎Part 4. Geography ‎Chapter 10. The Faḍāʾil of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies (Mourad) ‎Chapter 11. Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ʿUmāra al-Yamanī (d. 569/1174) in the Kharīdat al-qaṣr (Miller) ‎General Index