Description
Book SynopsisLiterary 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 study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature. Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel Toral
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1 Compilation, Authorship, and Readership 1 The ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic Isabel Toral 2 “I Begin with the Kings:” Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassām’s al-Dhakhīra Enass Khansa 3 Towards a Reconstruction of Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī’s K. Abyāt al-maʿānī David Larsen 4 A House in Words: Al-Ghuzūlī as Author’s Alternate Boutheina Khaldi Part 2 Pleasure 5 Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib’s Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha Jeremy Kurzyniec 6 Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik: A Study in Social Codicology Carl Davila Part 3 Religion and Education 7 Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying Lyall Armstrong 8 Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba’s (d. 276/889) ʿUyūn al-akhbār as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating “Religion” and Piety Hans-Peter Pökel 9 Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqāmas of Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 485/1092) Matthew L. Keegan Part 4 Geography 10 The Faḍāʾil of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies Suleiman A. Mourad 11 Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ʿUmāra al-Yamanī (d. 569/1174) in the Kharīdat al-qaṣr* Nathaniel A. Miller Index
