Approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies / / edited by Bilal Orfali, Nadia Maria El Cheikh.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts, volume 180 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 180. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 323 pages) :; illustrations (some color). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Compilation, Authorship, and Readership. The 'Iqd al-farīd by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic / Isabel Toral
- "I Begin with the Kings:" Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassām's al-Dhakhīra / Enass Khansa
- Towards a Reconstruction of Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī's K. Abyāt al-ma'ānī / David Larsen
- A House in Words: Al-Ghuzūlī as Author's Alternate / Boutheina Khaldi
- Pleasure. Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in 'Alī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib's Jawāmi' al-ladhdha / Jeremy Kurzyniec
- Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnāsh al-Ḥā'ik: A Study in Social Codicology / Carl Davila
- Religion and Education. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying / Lyall Armstrong
- Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) 'Uyūn al-akhbār as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating "Religion" and Piety / Hans-Peter Pökel
- Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqāmas of Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 485/1092) / Matthew L. Keegan
- Geography. The Faḍāʼil of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies / Suleiman A. Mourad
- Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of 'Umāra al-Yamanī (d. 569/1174) in the Kharīdat al-qaṣr / Nathaniel A. Miller.