An Anthology of Arabic Literature : : From the Classical to the Modern / / Tarif Khalidi.

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• VerfasserIn: Khalidi, Tarif,
• MitwirkendeR: Abi Rabiʿa, ʿUmar ibn,; Abuʾl Fida,,; Al-Abi,,; Al-Babi,,; Al-Buhturi,,; Al-Hutayʾah,,; Al-Marzubani,,; Al-Sharishi,,; Al-Subki,,; Al-Zajjaji,,; Amin, Ahmad,; Baqaʾ al-Rundi, Abuʾl,; Burd, Bashshar ibn,; Farabi,,; Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmad,; Firas al-Hamdani, Abu,; Fuʾad Najm, Ahmad,; Ghazali,,; Haidar, Rustum,; Hamdun, Ibn,; Hasan al-Anbari, Abuʾl,; Hayyan al-Tawhidi, Abu,; Hazm, Ibn,; Husayn al-Haruni al-Zaydi, Abuʾl,; Jahiz,,; Khaldun, Ibn,; Khallikan, Ibn,; Mahmud al-ʿAqqad, ʿAbbas,; Masʿudi,,; Mistghanmi, Ahlam,; Muhammad al-Qazwini, Zakariyya ibn,; Musa, Salama,; Nuwas, Abu,; Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Ibn,; Qutayba, Ibn,; Saadeh, Antun,; Salam al-Khalidi, ʿAnbara,; Samaha, Joseph,; Saʿid al-Maghribi, Ibn,; Shakir al-Sayyab, Badr,; Shama, Abu,; Tamir, Zakariyya,; Taqyiddin, Saʿid,; Turtushi,,; Wasil, Ibn,; Yahya al-Suli, Muhammad ibn,; Yaqut,,; Yusuf ibn al-Daya, Ahmad ibn,; Zayd al-Qurashi, Abu,; Ziadeh, May,; Zurayq al-Baghdadi, Ibn,; al-Athir, Ibn,; al-Din al-Razi, Fakhr,; al-Din al-ʿAmili, Bahaʾ,; al-Fariʿah,,; al-Hallaq, Al-Budayri,; al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Imam,; al-Kuni, Ibrahim,; al-Maghut, Muhammad,; al-Makki, Abu Talib,; al-Malaʾika, Nazik,; al-Masih al-Kindi, ʿAbd,; al-Muqaffaʿ, Ibn,; al-Muʿizz al-Fatimi, Tamim ibn,; al-Muʿtazz, ʿAbdullah ibn,; al-Niʿmah al-Sabi, Ghars,; al-Qahir al-Jurjani, ʿAbd,; al-Rusafi, Maʿruf,; al-Safadi,,; al-Safaʾ, Ikhwan,; al-Sakakini, Khalil,; al-Tikirli, Fuʾad,; al-Tiqtaqa, Ibn,; al-Zubayr, Al-Qadi al-Rashid ibn,; al-ʿAlayli, ʿAbdullah,; al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri, Abu,; al-ʿAllaf, Abu Bakr ibn,; ʿAbd al-Barr, Ibn ʿ,; ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Abu,; ʿAbdullah, Abu ʿAli al-Hasan ibn,; ʿAmil, Mahdi,; ʿAsakir, Ibn,; ʿAtiyya, Muqatil ibn,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

An anthology of Arabic literature, ancient and modern, in both prose and verseIntroducing readers to the extremely rich tradition of Arabic literature, this Anthology covers some of its major themes and concerns across the centuries, from its early beginnings to modern times. The texts chosen are a 'library of personal preferences' of a scholar who has spent half a century or more in the company of Arabic books, marking then translating those passages that seemed to him to capture some of its most memorable moments.Reflecting the great diversity and unpredictability of Arabic literature as the carrier of a major world culture, both pre-modern and modern, the Anthology is divided thematically to highlight modern issues such as love, religion, the human self, human rights, freedom of expression, the environment, violence, secular thought and feminism. The short, easy-to-read texts are accessible to non-specialists, providing an ideal entry point to this extraordinary literature.Key FeaturesA wide thematic and chronological spread including both verse and proseNewly translated texts on a range of subjects such as the occult sciences, heresy, psychological reflections, literary theory, sexual etiquette, man and nature, geographical observations and reflections on world historyIncludes extracts from philosophers, theologians and scientistsMarginal glosses explain key terms, figures and momentsRead the introduction and first few extracts for free (pdf)"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I PRE-MODERN TEXTS -- SECTION I POETRY -- Mock-heroic -- 1. The poet and the wolf -- 2. A love and wine song -- 3. Elegy for a drinking companion -- Bedouin chivalry -- 4. A Bedouin and his guest -- Frivolous love -- 5. A girl called Hind -- Melancholy -- 6. A rain cloud -- Heretical verse -- 7. Faith and unbelief -- Elegies I -- 8. A poetess mourns her brother -- 9. Elegy for the celebrated vizier Nizam al-Mulk -- 10. Elegy for a friend -- Humour -- 11. Grey hairs -- Poets and their daughters -- 12. A poet to his daughter -- 13. A dying poet to his daughter -- Elegies II -- 14. Elegy for the fall of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) -- 15. Elegy for the vizier Ibn Baqiyya, killed then crucified in 978 -- Elegies III: humorous -- 16. Elegy for a tomcat -- 17. Elegy for an extracted molar tooth -- Exile -- 18. A poet dying in exile -- Imagery -- 19. A woman bathing -- Poetic fragments by various poets -- 20. On nature and natural objects -- 21. On the joys and agonies of love -- Seduction -- 22. A poet defends his seduction of a young and innocent girl -- SECTION II PROSE -- Jahiz -- 23. On authors and authorship -- 24. Advice to public speakers I -- 25. Advice to public speakers II -- 26. The power of suggestion -- Animal fables -- 27. The lion, the wolf, the raven, the jackal and the camel -- 28. The flea and the mosquito -- Snappy answers -- 29. Al-Ajwiba al-muskita -- Heretics -- 30. On Ibn al-Shalmaghani, his execution and a brief mention of his heretical views -- 31. On Abu Talib al-Makki, the famous mystic -- 32. Rival Qurʾans -- 33. Last will and testament -- Psychology -- 34. The psychology of old age -- 35. Education of the young (excerpts) -- 36. Firasa (physiognomy) (excerpts) -- Foreign lands -- 37. England -- 38. The land of the Franks -- 39. Ireland -- 40. A medieval Lilliput -- 41. Emperor Frederick II (d. 1250) tricks his rivals -- 42. Propaganda during the Third Crusade, 1190 -- 43. A Byzantine emperor's finery -- 44. Diplomacy: embassy of Queen Bertha, daughter of Lothar -- Literary anecdotes -- 45. A lesson in generosity -- 46. A brilliant judge -- 47. Poetic justice: revenge -- 48. A clown at a caliph's court -- 49. A classic children's story: Tanburi's shoe -- 50. Three real-life stories on the theme of 'Ease following hardship' -- 51. Pre-Islamic Arabian lore -- 52. What kings must avoid -- Argument -- 53. Theology as defined by a philosopher (excerpts) -- 54. On marvels and oddities of nature (excerpts) -- 55. Can a woman be a prophet? -- 56. Paradise is a bore -- 57. What is laughter? -- 58. A division of existents -- 59. A humorous exchange on the subject of miserliness -- 60. An argument over date wine -- 61. The symptoms of love -- Sexuality -- 62. Sexual manners -- Reflections on history -- 63. Civilisations and religious beliefs -- 64. Were the ancients taller and longer lived than us? -- 65. Dismissing a vizier -- 66. Biographers -- 67. Dynastic transitions -- 68. The Mongol invasions -- 69. The caliph ʿUthman and the First Civil War in Islamic history -- 70. Arab history comes full circle -- 71. Causes of the decline of states -- 72. Military feudalism in Andalusia -- 73. Religions and policies of ancient nations -- 74. Are the conquests of Alexander the Great credible as reported? -- History: direct witnesses -- 75. The death of Saladin, 1193 (excerpts) -- 76. Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane: the great world historian meets the great world conqueror, 1401 (excerpts) -- Society -- 77. Arts and crafts in cities (excerpts) -- Sufism (Islamic mysticism) -- 78. Sufi sayings and stories -- 79. Licit and illicit as colours: a Sufi view -- 80. Sufi solitude (excerpts) -- 81. How Satan enters the human heart (excerpts) -- Proverbs and aphorisms -- 82. Proverbs popular among the common people of Baghdad in the tenth century -- Literary judgements -- 83. The celebrated poet al-Farazdaq (d. 728) to a man who showed him his inferior verse -- 84. The famous critic al-Asmaʿi (d. 828) on poetry -- 85. On verse and prose -- 86. The introduction to a famous literary anthology -- 87. The famous poet Abu Tammam on his verse -- 88. When can a simile be considered truly remarkable? [excerpts] -- Reflections on the state -- 89. The democratic city-state -- 90. Inaugural address by the Umayyad caliph Yazid III, a 'democratic' caliph -- Polemic -- 91. Christian Arabic polemics against Islam -- 92. Debates with Jews and Christians -- Jesus -- 93. Passages on Jesus in the Qurʾan Commentary (Tafsir) of Tabari -- Wisdom literature -- 94. A famous scholar describes how he spends his days -- 95. Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad -- 96. Sayings of ʿAli ibn Abi Talib -- 97. Sundry wisdom sayings -- PART II MODERN TEXTS -- SECTION I POETRY -- Political protest -- 98. Three popular political songs -- 99. Two poems -- Heretics -- 100. A poet's heretical credo -- Jesus -- 101. Christ after the Crucifixion -- Elegies -- 102. Elegy for a woman (Scenes from a Baghdad alley) -- 103. It's time this heart withdrew -- 104. To devotees of bullfighting -- SECTION II PROSE -- Popular historiography -- 105. A Damascene barber records the life around him -- 106. A child's secret -- 107. Three short stories by Zakariyya Tamir -- Feminism -- 108. A lecture given in Cairo in 1914 (excerpts) -- 109. Two autobiographical accounts -- Personal experience -- 110. An Egyptian Muslim cleric defrocks (circa 1927) -- 111. An encounter with George Bernard Shaw (circa 1910) -- Humour -- 112. The fat person -- Jesus -- 113. Christ: a modern Muslim view (excerpts) -- Personal experiences of war -- 114. Scenes from the First World War (Palestine) -- 115. Scenes from the First World War (Lebanon) -- 116. The Versailles Peace Conference (1919): an Arab perspective -- 117. Two encounters with Anatole France (1844-1924) -- Heretics -- 118. Fanaticism -- Foreign lands -- 119. England in the 1840s -- Political writings: editorials -- 120. Who owns the 'weapon' of democracy? -- 121. Hatred of America -- 122. Modern Syria's literary and national renaissance (excerpts) -- 123. A Marxist analysis of the term 'civilisation' (excerpts) -- Muslim law -- 124. A modern Muslim jurist on punishments in Muslim sacred law (excerpts) -- Aphorisms for our times -- 125. Aphorisms for our times -- Sources -- Index of Authors