UID:
almahu_9949383492502882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 232 pages).
ISBN:
9781000701203
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1000701204
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9780429319617
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0429319614
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9781000699982
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1000699986
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9781000700596
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1000700593
Series Statement:
Culture and civilization in the Middle East
Content:
"This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of 'the ideological work' that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for 'Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the 'bedouin cosmos.' The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the paradigm shift that occurred in the 'Abbāsid empire after the Graeco-Arabian intellectual revolution. Moreover, this book demonstrates how gender and sexuality are employed in the processes of primitivizing Majnūn. As markers of 'strangeness' and 'foreignness' in the 'Abbāsid interrogations of the multiple categories of ethnicity, culture, identity, religion and language present in their cosmopolitan milieus. Such 'cultural work' is performed through the ideological uses of alterity given its mechanisms of distancing (e.g., temporal and spatial) and nearness (e.g. affective). Lastly, the Majnūn Laylā love story demonstrates, in its text and reception, that a Greco-Arabian and Greco-Persian sub-culture thrived in the centers of 'Abbāsid Baghdad that molded and shaped the ways in which this love story was compiled, received and performed. Offering a corrective to the prevailing views expressed in Western scholarly writings on the Greco-Arabian encounter, this book is a major contribution to scholars and students interested in Arabic and comparative literature, Middle East and Gender Studies"--
Note:
Introduction -- 1. Song clture, Kitāb al-Aghānī (book of songs) and the love story of Majnūn Laylā -- 2. On the term ʻUdhrī and its symbolic universe for understanding Majnūn Laylā -- 3. The night in the Ghayl : love, meaning, and language -- 4. Umayyad and ʻAbbāsid constructs of masculinities in the love story of Majnūn Laylā -- 5. A lost "Bedouin Arcadia" : the tree man and the Umayyad tax man -- 6. Majnūn as the knight-errant : language and the significance of errancy (Huyām) -- 7. ʻAbbāsid culturally primitivist readings of Laylā as object and subject -- 8. ʻAbbāsid readings of the ʻUḍhrī romances : female unchastity and the love triangle -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: e. Bedouin and 'Abbāsid cultural identities. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9780367333942
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429319617
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429319617
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