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Book SynopsisThe notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.
Table of ContentsContents Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé “Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen 2 From Education to Etiquette An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab Luca Patrizi Part 1: Backgrounds and Foundations 3 Paideia et adab Quelques remarques préliminaires Jakub Sypiański 4 De l’adab au musar La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen ge Francesca Gorgoni Part 2: The “Origins” of Adab Introduction to Part 2 Francesca Bellino Section 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons 5 Wine, Law and Irony al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks) Ignacio Sánchez 6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār Francesca Bellino 7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166) Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’adab Francesco Chiabotti Section 2: Adab, Power and Ethics 8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander Faustina Doufikar-Aerts 9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought Neguin Yavari 10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval Monica Balda-Tillier Part 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the Centuries Introduction to Part 3 Francesca Bellino Section 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West 11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna István T. Kristó-Nagy 12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna Thibaut d’Hubert Section 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt 13 Adab as Metamorphosis Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz 14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel? Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter” Stefan Reichmuth Section 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies 15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods Hilary Kilpatrick 16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle Alessandro Mengozzi Part 4: Metamorphoses of Origins Introduction to Part 4 Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Section 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism 17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’adab Jean-Charles Coulon 18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation The Irano-Turkic Case Marc Toutant 19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri Étienne Naveau Section 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins? 20 Adab into Littérature Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France Jonathan Haddad 21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean Elisabetta Benigni 22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937) Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Index of Names and Places Index of Titles Index of Keywords and Notions
