{"product_id":"approaches-to-the-study-of-pre-modern-arabic-anthologies-9789004459083","title":"Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210819199319,"sku":"9789004459083","price":131.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/approaches-to-the-study-of-pre-modern-arabic-anthologies-9789004459083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}