Anthology of Arabic Literature (eBook, ePUB)

From the Classical to the Modern
Redaktion: Khalidi, Tarif

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474410816
• Artikelnr.: 72413107

Autorenporträt

Tarif Khalidi has been the Shaykh Zayid Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut since 2002. He was the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge between 1996-2002 and is the author of Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (1994), The Muslim Jesus (2001), The Qur'an: A new translation (2008) and Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam Across the Centuries (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I PRE-MODERN TEXTS SECTION I POETRY Mock-heroic 1. The poet and the wolf Al-Buhturi (d. 897) 2. A love and wine song Tamim ibn al-Mu
izz al-Fatimi (d. 984) 3. Elegy for a drinking companion
Abdullah ibn al-Mu
tazz (d. 908) Bedouin chivalry 4. A Bedouin and his guest Al-Hutay
ah (d. c. 661) Frivolous love 5. A girl called Hind
Umar ibn Abi Rabi
a (d. 711) Melancholy 6. A rain cloud Abu al-
Ala
al-Ma
arri (d. 1057) Heretical verse 7. Faith and unbelief Abu al-
Ala
al-Ma
arri Elegies I 8. A poetess mourns her brother Al-Fari
ah (d. c. 800) 9. Elegy for the celebrated vizier Nizam al-Mulk Muqatil ibn
Atiyya (d. c. 1111) 10. Elegy for a friend Abu al-
Ala
al-Ma
arri Humour 11. Grey hairs Abu
Ali al-Hasan ibn
Abdullah (d. c. 1001) Poets and their daughters 12. A poet to his daughter Anonymous 13. A dying poet to his daughter Abu Firas al-Hamdani (d. 968) Elegies II 14. Elegy for the fall of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) Abu
l Baqa
al-Rundi (d. 1285) 15. Elegy for the vizier Ibn Baqiyya, killed then crucified in 978 Abu
l Hasan al-Anbari (d. 10th century) Elegies III: humorous 16. Elegy for a tomcat Abu Bakr ibn al-
Allaf (d. 930) 17. Elegy for an extracted molar tooth Al-Babi (d. 1681) Exile 18. A poet dying in exile Ibn Zurayq al-Baghdadi (d. 1029) Imagery 19. A woman bathing Abu Nuwas (d. 814) Poetic fragments by various poets 20. On nature and natural objects (i) The crescent moon (ii) The new moon in daytime (iii) The full moon behind clouds (iv) The moon shining upon water (v) The moon amid stars (vi) The stars (vii) The Pleiades (viii) Gemini (ix) Mars (x) Vega (xi) Vega, Altair and Pisces (xii) Ursa Major (xiii) Pitch-black night (xiv) Dawn (xv) A rainbow (xvi) Midday heat (xvii) Extreme cold (xviii) A day both bright and cloudy (xix) Shadows cast by leaves (xx) The rose and the daffodil (xxi) A red anemone (xxii) Wallflowers (xxiii) The Judas tree 21. On the joys and agonies of love Seduction 22. A poet defends his seduction of a young and innocent girl Bashshar ibn Burd (d. 784) 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 Ibn al-Muqaffa
(d. 756) 28. The flea and the mosquito Baha
al-Din al-
Amili (d. 1621) Snappy answers 29. Al-Ajwiba al-muskita Heretics 30. On Ibn al-Shalmaghani, his execution and a brief mention of his heretical views Abu
l Fida (d. 1331) 31. On Abu Talib al-Makki, the famous mystic Abu
l Fida 32. Rival Qur
ans Abu
l Husayn al-Haruni al-Zaydi (d. 1030) 33. Last will and testament Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 1085) Psychology 34. The psychology of old age Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1209) 35. Education of the young Ghazali (d. 1111) 36. Firasa (physiognomy) Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Foreign lands 37. England Ibn Sa
id al-Maghribi (d. 1286) 38. The land of the Franks Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (d. 1283) 39. Ireland Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini 40. A medieval Lilliput Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini 41. Emperor Frederick II (d. 1250) tricks his rivals Ibn Wasil (d. 1298) 42. Propaganda during the Third Crusade, 1190 Abu Shama (d. 1268) 43. A Byzantine emperor's finery Al-Qadi al-Rashid ibn al-Zubayr (d. late 11th century) 44. Diplomacy: embassy of Queen Bertha, daughter of Lothar Al-Qadi al-Rashid ibn al-Zubayr Literary anecdotes 45. A lesson in generosity Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282) 46. A brilliant judge Ibn
Asakir (d. 1175), al-Safadi (d. 1363) 47. Poetic justice: revenge Ghars al-Ni
mah al-Sabi (d. 1087) 48. A clown at a caliph's court Al-Sharishi (d. 1222) 49. A classic children's story: Tanburi's shoe Anonymous 50. Three real-life stories on the theme of 'Ease following hardship' Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn al-Daya (d. c. 942) 51. Pre-Islamic Arabian lore 52. What kings must avoid Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (d. after 1302) Argument 53. Theology as defined by a philosopher Farabi (d. 950) 54. On marvels and oddities of nature Mas
udi (d. 956) 55. Can a woman be a prophet? Ibn Hazm (d. 1064) 56. Paradise is a bore Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (d. c. 1010) 57. What is laughter? Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi 58. A division of existents Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi 59. A humorous exchange on the subject of miserliness Ibn Qutayba (d. 889) 60. An argument over date wine Al-Zajjaji (d. 951) 61. The symptoms of love Ibn Hazm Sexuality 62. Sexual manners Ghazali Reflections on history 63. Civilisations and religious beliefs Jahiz 64. Were the ancients taller and longer lived than us? Mas
udi 65. Dismissing a vizier Ibn al-Athir (d. 1232) 66. Biographers Al-Subki (d. 1370) 67. Dynastic transitions Ibn al-Athir 68. The Mongol invasions Ibn al-Athir 69. The caliph
Uthman and the First Civil War in Islamic history Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) 70. Arab history comes full circle Ibn Khaldun 71. Causes of the decline of states Turtushi (d. 1126) 72. Military feudalism in Andalusia Turtushi 73. Religions and policies of ancient nations Turtushi 74. Are the conquests of Alexander the Great credible as reported? Yaqut (d. 1229) History: direct witnesses 75. The death of Saladin, 1193 Abu Shama 76. Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane: the great world historian meets the great world conqueror, 1401 Ibn Khaldun Society 77. Arts and crafts in cities Ikhwan al-Safa
(c. 10th-11th century) Sufism (Islamic mysticism) 78. Sufi sayings and stories Abu
Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (d. 1021) 79. Licit and illicit as colours: a Sufi view Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 996) 80. Sufi solitude Ghazali 81. How Satan enters the human heart Ghazali Proverbs and aphorisms 82. Proverbs popular among the common people of Baghdad in the tenth century Al-Abi (d. 1030) Literary judgements 83. The celebrated poet al-Farazdaq (d. 728) to a man who showed him his inferior verse Abu Zayd al-Qurashi (d. early 10th century) 84. The famous critic al-Asma
i (d. 828) on poetry Al-Marzubani (d. 994) 85. On verse and prose Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi 86. The introduction to a famous literary anthology Ibn Qutayba (d. 889) 87. The famous poet Abu Tamman on his verse Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli (d. 946) 88. When can a simile be considered truly remarkable?
Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani (d. 1078) Reflections on the state 89. The democratic city-state Farabi 90. Inaugural address by the Umayyad caliph Yazid III, a 'democratic' caliph Ibn Hamdun (d. 1166) Polemic 91. Christian Arabic polemics against Islam
Abd al-Masih al-Kindi (fl. early 10th century) 92. Debates with Jews and Christians Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350) Jesus 93. Passages on Jesus in the Qur
an Commentary (Tafsir) of Tabari (i) Jesus' birth (ii) Jesus speaks in his cradle (iii) The livelihood of Jesus (iv) The crucifixion of Jesus (v) The death and ascension of Jesus Wisdom literature 94. A famous scholar describes how he spends his days Ibn
Abd al-Barr (d. 1070) 95. Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad 96. Sayings of
Ali ibn Abi Talib 97. Sundry wisdom sayings PART II MODERN TEXTS SECTION I POETRY Political protest 98. Three popular political songs Ahmad Fu
ad Najm (d. 2013) (i) The mawwal of ful and meat (ii) D'Estaing (iii) Mickey 99. Two poems Muhammad al-Maghut (d. 2006) (i) A frightened postman (ii) Fear Heretics 100. A poet's heretical credo Ma
ruf al-Rusafi (d. 1945) Jesus 101. Christ after the Crucifixion Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (d. 1964) Elegies 102. Elegy for a woman (Scenes from a Baghdad alley) Nazik al-Mala
ika (d. 2007) 103. It's time this heart withdrew Ahlam Mistghanmi (b. 1953) 104. To devotees of bullfighting Ahlam Mistghanmi SECTION II PROSE Popular historiography 105. A Damascene barber records the life around him Al-Budayri al-Hallaq (d. after 1762) Short stories 106. A child's secret Fu
ad al-Tikirli (d. 2008) 107. Three short stories Zakariyya Tamir (b. 1931) (i) 'Good morning' (ii) Burglars (iii) The eternal governor Feminism 108. A lecture given in Cairo in 1914 May Ziadeh (d. 1941) 109. Two autobiographical accounts
Anbara Salam al-Khalidi (d. 1986) (i) A girl dons the veil in Beirut in 1907 (ii) Twenty years later: the unveiling Personal experience 110. An Egyptian Muslim cleric defrocks (c. 1927) Ahmad Amin (d. 1954) 111. An encounter with George Bernard Shaw (c. 1910) Salama Musa (d. 1958) Humour 112. The fat person Sa
id Taqyiddin (d. 1960) Jesus 113. Christ: a modern Muslim view
Abbas Mahmud al-
Aqqad (d. 1964) Personal experiences of war 114. Scenes from the First World War (Palestine) Khalil al-Sakakini (d. 1953) 115. Scenes from the First World War (Lebanon) (i)
Anbara Salam al-Khalidi (ii)
Ajjaj Nuwayhid (iii) Yusuf al-Hakim 116. The Versailles Peace Conference (1919): an Arab perspective Rustum Haidar (d. 1940) 117. Two encounters with Anatole France (1844-1924) Rustum Haidar Heretics 118. Fanaticism Ma
ruf al-Rusafi Foreign lands 119. England in the 1840s Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (d. 1887) (i) A village in Cambridgeshire (ii) English social classes (iii) Cambridge and Oxford (iv) Praiseworthy English customs (v) English marriage customs (vi) English children's upbringing (vii) English table manners (viii) English and French prostitutes Political writings: editorials 120. Who owns the 'weapon' of democracy? Joseph Samaha (d. 2010) 121. Hatred of America Joseph Samaha 122. Modern Syria's literary and national renaissance Antun Saadeh (d. 1949) 123. A Marxist analysis of the term 'civilisation' Mahdi
Amil (d. 1987) Muslim law 124. A modern Muslim jurist on punishments in Muslim sacred law
Abdullah al-
Alayli (d. 1996) Aphorisms for our times 125. Aphorisms for our times Ibrahim al-Kuni (b. 1948) Sources Index of authors