Nathaniel A Miller

The Emergence of Arabic Poetry

From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Medieval Arabic poetry has long been used to understand the language of the Quran. This book explores how it achieved this role, and narrates how it developed historically as late antique Arabians interacted with the Persian and Roman empires, whose empires they largely conquered with the coming of Islam"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781512825305
• ISBN-10: 1512825301
• Artikelnr.: 69123181

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel A. Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Note on Transliteration, Translations, Dates, and Sources
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. FROM "PRE-ISLAMIC" TO LATE ANTIQUE TRIBALISMS
Chapter 1. Beyond the J¿hiliyyah: How Najdi Poetics Became Classical Arabic
Poetry
Chapter 2. The Background to the Najdi-Hijazi Dichotomy: Arabians and Late
Antique Empires Before 500CE
Chapter 3. Development of Najdi and Hijazi Identities in Poetic Sources
(500-622)
PART II. HIJAZI AND NAJDI REGIONAL IDENTITIES (500-632)
Chapter 4. Poetics of the Najdi Warrior Elite
Chapter 5. Hijazi Counterpoetics: The Case of Hudhayl
Chapter 6. Imagined Geographies
Chapter 7. Hijazi Imagined Geographies
PART III. ISLAM AND THE ASCENT OF NEO-NAJDI POETICS (632-750)
Chapter 8. Poets as Tribal Spokesmen in Early Islam (Before 692)
Chapter 9. Najdi Poetic Construction of Universal Arabo-Islam (After 692)
Conclusion
Appendix of Arabic Texts
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments