The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

Huda Fakhreddine, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Huda Fakhreddine, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Huda J. Fakhreddine, Huda J. Fakhreddine, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780367562359
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003815488
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Comprised 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 Arabic tradition with other Middle Eastern traditions, such as Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, and on South-South ideological and poetic networks of solidarity that have informed poetic currents across the modern Middle East. This volume will be ideal for scholars and students of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and comparative literature, as well as non-specialists interested in poetry and in the present moment of the study of Arabic poetry.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration and Translation
• 1 Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-Qays
• 2 Parody and the Creation of the Muḥdath Ghazal
• 3 Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies
• 4 Andalusi Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)
• 5 Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition
• 6 Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco: Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu
• 7 Ibn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)
• 8 The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature
• 9 Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry
• 10 Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)
• 11 The Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān Dammū
• 12 Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery
• 13 Disturbing Vision : Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry
• 14 The Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity
• Index