The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
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
	Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry, Arabia, and the World
	Imruʾ al-Qays and Late Antiquity
	The Poem: Rāʾiyya, Or “Desire Filled Your Heart”
	The Rāʾiyya, the Kingdom of Kinda, and the Lost Ḥimyarite King
	The Rāʾiyya and the Heroic Journey
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	Works Cited
2 Parody and the Creation of the Muḥdath Ghazal
	Introduction
	The Role of Parody in the Creation of the Muḥdath Ghazal
	An Exploration of Bashshar’s Ghazal in the Meter Ṭawīl
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
3 Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry From the Perspective of Interarts Studies
	Introduction
		Architecture and Other Works of Art
		Occasionality
		Ekphrasis
		Space and Transpositions as Important Elements of Architecture
		Architecture as a Subject of Classical Arabic Poetry
	Power, Authority, and Violence in the Khawarnaq Palace
		Khabar 1 (Kitāb al-Aghānī, 2: 92)
		Khabar 2 (Kitāb al-Aghānī, 2: 92)
		Khabar 3 (al-Jāḥiẓ, Kitāb al-Ḥayawān, 1: 23, 24)
		Renunciation of Power and Authority
		Arrogance and Rivalry in a Palace
		The Journey of the Eyes in Al-Haruni Palace
		Rivalry Between Nature and the Nature Beautified By the Caliph in al-Jaʿfarī Palace
		Fusion and Tension Between the Carpet and the Actual Garden
		The Rivalry Between the Palace and the Poetry
		The Cumulative Aesthetic Effect of the Inscribed Verses On the Walls of the Alhambra
		Glory Depicted By the Alhambra
		Rivalry Between the Iwan Kisra and the Buildings of Al-Andalus
		Space as Empty in the Alhambra
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
	Suggestions for Further Reading
4 Andalusi Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” By Ibn Quzman (D. AH 555 / AD 1160)
	Notes
	Works Cited
5 Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	Works Cited
6 Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco: Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu
	Terms Used in This Chapter
	The Andalusian Music Tradition, In Brief
	Prophet-inspired Piety in the Andalusian Music Tradition
	Love Poetry and the Prophet
	The Nuba and the Mantle Ode: Prophet-Piety in Exoteric and Esoteric Performed Poetry
	Notes
	Works Cited
7 Ibn KhamĪs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems On Tlemcen)
	Zayyanid Tlemcen: The Gem of the Maghrib and the Laylā of Ibn Khamīs
	Ibn Khamīs: The Exiled Poet Yearning for Tlemcen
	The Ḥāʾiyya of Ibn Khamīs
	Conclusion
	Notes
	works Cited
8 The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature
	Notes
	Works Cited
9 Kaʿb Ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry
	Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Navigations in the Ottoman World
	Shared Griefs, Uncertain Futures: Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr and the Tigris River Respond to the Ottoman Defeat
	Reconfigurations of Heritage and Homeland
	Notes
	Works Cited
10 Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)
	Introduction
	Breaking Poetry’s Back in Plutoland
	Lewis Awad’s Plutoland
	Modernist Arabic Poetry After Plutoland
	Conclusion: Looking Back at Plutoland
	Notes
	Works Cited
11 The ṢaʿĀLĪk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān Dammū
	Introduction
	Situating Ṣaʿlaka in the Modern Era: The Formation of the Twentieth-Century Ṣuʿlūk in Iraq
	Ḥusayn Mardān: The Man of Fog
	Ṣaʿlaka as a Lived Poem: Jān Dammū’s Royal Rags
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
12 Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery
	Cinematography as a Visual Reference and the Dynamism of Imagination
	Language’s Visual Capacity: Imagery Without Majaz
	Works Cited
13 Disturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry
	The Myth of Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma
	ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Manāṣira and the Disaster of 1948, al-Nakba
	Amal Dunqul’s Invocation of Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma
	Thurayyā al-ʻUrayyiḍ’s Ayna ittijāh al-shajar? (Where are the Trees Heading?)
	Nūr al-Dīn ʿAzīza’s “Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and the Horse of Carthage”
	Ḥanān Shāhīn and Zarqāʾs Contemporary Prophecy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
14 The Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity
	Introduction: The Sand Diviner of Arabia
	Imagined Communities and National Identity: Reconstructing Society’s Self-Image
	Literary Modernism in Saudi Arabia: A Clash of Opposing Imaginings
	The Saudi Poet Versus Cultural Misrepresentation
	Nature and Culture Are Ṣinwān (Twins): Identifying the Poet With Arabia’s Landmarks
	From Separation to Identification in a Modernist Bipartite Ode
	The Poem of the Earth: Prophethood From the Mountain to the Sand
	The Sufi Experience: From the Abstract to the Particular
	“Which Meter Do You Do Best?” Movement Through Various Metrical Schemes
	Jinas and Meta-Jinas: The Identification Incarnated
	“In My Language Is a Jahili Stone”: Arab Autochthony as a Site of Pre-Oil Memory
	Final Notes: The New Imagining Realized?
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	Works Cited
Index