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Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam
About this book
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalitĂŠs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Note
- Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Note
- I: Islamic Biography
- II: Controversy and Its Effects in the Biographical Tradition of Al-KhatÎb Al-BaghdâdÎ
- III: The Interrelationship of Onomastic Elements: Isms, DĂŽn-Names, and Kunyas in the Ninth-Century A.H.
- IV: Pour Une RhĂŠtorique Onomastique: Les Noms Des Aveugles Chez As-SafadĂŽ
- V: Dreams, the Blind, and the Semiotics of the Biographical Notice
- VI: MentalitĂŠs and Marginality: Blindness and MamlĂťk Civilization
- VII: The Classical Arabic Detective
- VIII: Texts and Tortures: The Reign of Al-MuĘżtadid and the Construction of Historical Meaning
- IX: Classical Arabic Crime Narratives: Thieves and Thievery in Adab Literature
- X: YÝsuf Ibn ʿAbd Al-HâdÎ and His Autograph of the WuqÝʿ Al-Balâ' Bil-Bukhl Wal-Bukhalâ'
- XI: Structure and Organization in a Monographic Adab Work: Al-TatfÎl of Al-KhatÎb Al-BaghdâdÎ
- XII: Maqâmât and Adab: "Al-Maqâma Al-MadÎriyya" of Al-HamadhânÎ
- XIII: Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse
- Index
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