Description
Book SynopsisComprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of the
Table of Contents
Preface
Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-Qays
Pamela Klasova
Parody and the Creation of the Muḥdath Ghazal
Ahmad Almallah
Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies
Akiko Sumi
Andalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)
James T. Monroe
Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition
Ross Brann
Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu:
Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco
Carl Davila
Ibn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)
Nizar F. Hermes
The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature
Yaseen Noorani
Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry
C. Ceyhun Arslan
Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)
Levi Thompson
The Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān Dammū
Suneela Mubayi
Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery
Sayed Elsisi
Disturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry
Clarissa Burt
The Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity
Hatem Alzahrani
