Like Joseph in beauty : Yemeni vernacular poetry and Arab-Jewish symbiosis / / by Mark S. Wagner.
Like Joseph in Beauty traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called ‘Humayni poetry’. From Muslim mystical circles, the courts of aristocrats in Highland Yemen, and kabbalist circles of Yemenite Jews, Humayni poetry distinguishes itself with lyricism, musicality, and eroticism. It also plays...
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| Superior document: | Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, v. 33 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ;
v. 33. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / M.S. Wagner
- Introduction / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter One. Defining the Ḥumaynī poem / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Two. Dialect in Ḥumaynī poetry / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Three. A golden age of Ḥumaynī poetry / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Four. The status of Ḥumaynī poetry / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Five. R. Sālim Al-Shabazī and the Shabaziyyāt / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Six. Shabazian eroticism, Kabbalah and Dor deʿAh / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Seven. Ḥumaynī poetry and revolution in twentieth-century Yemen / M.S. Wagner
- Chapter Eight. Shabazī in Tel Aviv / M.S. Wagner
- Conclusion / M.S. Wagner
- Appendix One. The word “Ḥumaynī” / M.S. Wagner
- Appendix Two. Ḥumaynī form, structure, and prosody / M.S. Wagner
- Appendix Three. Orthography and prosody in St / M.S. Wagner
- Bibliography / M.S. Wagner
- Index / M.S. Wagner.