Classical Arabic Literature : : A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology / / Geert Jan van Gelder.
A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Both ente...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Notes to the Introduction
- Verse
- A Qaṣīdah by ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ
- A Qaṣīdah by ʿAlqamah ibn ʿAbadah
- A Qaṣīdah by al-Muthaqqib al-ʿAbdī
- An Elegy (Marthiyah) by al-Khansāʾ
- Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qaṣīdah by al-Akhṭal and a Reply by Jarīr
- Love in the Desert: A Qaṣīdah by Dhū l-Rummah, “To Mayyah’s Two Abodes, a Greeting!”
- An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, Used as an Abbasid Song Text
- ʿUdhrī Ghazal: a poem attributed to Majnūn Laylā
- Umayyad Ghazal: A Poem by ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah
- A Love Poem by Umm Khālid
- Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hijāʾ), by Bashshār ibn Burd
- A Muḥdath (“Modern”) Ghazal Epigram by Abū Nuwās
- A Ghazal by Abū Nuwās: On a Boy Called ʿAlī
- Two Wine Poems by Abū Nuwās
- A Lampooning Epigram (Hijāʾ) by Abū Nuwās
- A Ghazal Poem by al-ʿAbbās Ibn al-Aḥnaf
- Three Love Epigrams by ʿUlayyah bint al-Mahdī
- A Zuhdiyyah (“Poem of Asceticism”) by Abū l-ʿAtāhiyah
- Ibn al-Rūmī: On His Poetry
- A Qaṣīdah by Ibn al-Rūmī: A Party at ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hāshimī’s
- A Panegyric Qaṣīdah by al-Buḥturī
- A Victory Ode by al-Mutanabbī: The Qaṣīdah on Sayf al-Dawlah’s Recapture of the Fortress of al-Ḥadath in 343/954
- Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams by Ibn Khafājah
- Strophic Poem: A Muwashshaḥah by al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī
- An Anonymous Muwashshaḥah from Spain
- “There Descended to You”: A Philosophical Allegory by Ibn Sīnā
- Five Epigrams on Death and Belief, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
- Mystical Ghazal: A Poem by Ibn al-Fāriḍ
- A Mystical Zajal by al-Shushtarī
- Two Elegies on the Death of his Concubine, by Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī
- A Zajal: An Elegy on the Elephant Marzūq
- Rajaz
- Prose
- Examples of Early Rhymed Prose (Sajʿ)
- A Pre-Islamic Tale: The Princess on the Myrtle Leaf (Three Versions)
- How the Queen of Sheba Became Queen
- Two Stories from al-Masʿūdī’s Meadows of Gold
- Lives of The Poets: al-Farazdaq Tells the Story of Imruʾ al-Qays and the Girls at the Pond
- Bedouin Romance: The Unhappy Love Story of Qays and Lubnā
- A Parable: The Human Condition, or The Man in the Pit
- Mirror for Princes (and Others): Passages from Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Right Conduct
- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Flies and Other Things
- Essayistic Prose: Al-Tawḥīdī on the Superiority of the Arabs
- History as Literature: Al-Amīn and al-Maʾmūn, the Sons of Hārūn al-Rashīd
- Moral Tales and Parables: Passages from Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren)
- Prose Narrative: Four Stories by al-Tanūkhī
- The Isfahan Maqāmah by Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī
- The Debate of Pen and Sword, by Aḥmad Ibn Burd al-Aṣghar
- A Visit to Heaven and Hell, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
- Poetics: Ibn Rashīq on the Definition and Structure of Poetry
- Literary Criticism: From The Secrets of Eloquence by ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī
- Popular Science: Two Chapters from al-Damīrī’s Encyclopedia of Animals
- A Section from an Adab Encyclopedia: The Chapter on Stinginess fromThe Precious and Refined in Every Genre and Kind by al-Ibshīhī
- A Fairytale: The Tale of the Forty Girls
- Erotica: The Young Girl and the Dough Kneader, from al- Tīfāshī’s The Old Man’s Rejuvenation
- Two Burlesque Stories from Brains Confounded by al-Shirbīnī
- Lyrical Prose: A Visit to the Bath, by al-Ḥaymī al-Kawkabānī
- Notes
- Chronology
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Typefaces
- About the Translator