This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of 'the ideological work' that the Arabic Majn¿n Layl¿ story performed for 'Abb¿sid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the 'bedouin cosmos.'
This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of 'the ideological work' that the Arabic Majn¿n Layl¿ story performed for 'Abb¿sid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the 'bedouin cosmos.'
Ruqayya Yasmine Khan is an associate professor and the M. Malas Chair of Islamic Studies in Claremont Graduate University's Religion Department. Khan's research interests include Arabic literature (early and modern), Qur'anic studies, gender/women's studies and Islam and the digital age. Her more recent scholarly interests include late antiquity and Islam, origins of Islam and cultures of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad. Khan is the author of the book Self and Secrecy in Early Islam (2008), which maps the relationships between the concepts of secrecy and identity in early Islamic cultures. She is also the editor of Muhammad in the Digital Age (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Song Culture, Kit b al-Agh n (Book of Songs) and the Love Story of Majn n Layl 2. On the term 'U hr and its Symbolic Universe for Understanding Majn n Layl 3. The Night in the Ghayl-Love, Meaning, and Language 4. Umayyad and 'Abb sid Constructs of Masculinities in the Love Story of Majn n Layl 5. A Lost 'Bedouin Arcadia'-The Tree Man and the Umayyad Tax Man 6. Majn n as the Knight-Errant: Language and the Significance of Errancy (Huy m) 7. 'Abb sid Culturally Primitivist Readings of Layl as Object and Subject 8. 'Abb sid Readings of the 'U hr Romances: Female Unchastity & the Love Triangle Conclusion Glossary Bibliography
Introduction 1. Song Culture, Kit b al-Agh n (Book of Songs) and the Love Story of Majn n Layl 2. On the term 'U hr and its Symbolic Universe for Understanding Majn n Layl 3. The Night in the Ghayl-Love, Meaning, and Language 4. Umayyad and 'Abb sid Constructs of Masculinities in the Love Story of Majn n Layl 5. A Lost 'Bedouin Arcadia'-The Tree Man and the Umayyad Tax Man 6. Majn n as the Knight-Errant: Language and the Significance of Errancy (Huy m) 7. 'Abb sid Culturally Primitivist Readings of Layl as Object and Subject 8. 'Abb sid Readings of the 'U hr Romances: Female Unchastity & the Love Triangle Conclusion Glossary Bibliography
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