Format:
1 Online-Ressource (376 p.)
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15 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
9781474484084
Content:
Brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World LiteratureDisrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes Understands Islam as a driving creative force and situates its contribution in the development, past and present, of world imaginaries Covers a variety of global locations to discuss the Islamicate as developed in Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Middle-Eastern, African, Japanese, Chinese and Philippine literaturesExamines a diversity of genres including fiction and poetry, but also philosophy, oral literature and mangaSince its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts. Exploring Islam’s presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword
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1 The World Imaginaries of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature
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Tropes of Orientalism
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2 Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament
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3 Just One Word
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Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual and Written
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4 Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World
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5 The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali)
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6 Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagisation
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Circulation, Translation, Rereading
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7 Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) and his Poetic Translation of the Qurʾān
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8 The ‘Islamic’ Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries
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9 Where is World Literature?
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Secular–Non-secular
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10 Praising the Prophet Muḥammad in Chinese: A New Translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet
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11 A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance
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12 Indonesia’s sastera profetik as Decolonial Literary Theory
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474484053
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Islam and new directions in world literature Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023 ISBN 1474484050
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474484053
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Islamische Literatur
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Weltliteratur
DOI:
10.1515/9781474484084
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