MEDIEVAL ARABIC PRAISE POETRY by Gruendler, Beatrice ISBN 0700714901
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This book gives an insight into panegyrics (madih), a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. It has until now largely escaped scholarly attention.
This book gives an insight into panegyrics (madih), a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society, using Arabic as their written idiom, would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat. Stylized and artistic, making it difficult to read, and not fitting the modern self-absorbed notion of poetry, this important topic has until now largely escaped scholarly attention. The panegyric ocuvre of Ibn al-Rumi, dedicated to the last Tahirid governor of Baghdad is ideally suited to the study of the function of madih as the poet makes the issue of literary patronage a topic within his poems, yielding a vocal self-portrait as well as a fully-fledged ethic of literary patronage. Combining philological and theoretical-interpretative methods, this study presents and Ibn al-Rumi's madih pragmatically and linguistically, and examines the application of this dramaturgy to defend an 'ethic of patronage' against an examination of the role of poetry in medieval Near Eastern Society and the history of research on the panegyric ode. Th ebook will of interest to comparative literature scholars in general, and in particular to those working on medieval and court literatures, anthropologists, linguists and scholars of Near Eastern Studies and Islam.
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MEDIEVAL ARABIC PRAISE POETRY
[edit] Author
Gruendler, Beatrice
[edit] ISBN
0700714901
[edit] Published
14/11/2002
[edit] Publisher
Curzon Press Ltd
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hardback
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70 (GBP)
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