Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047406365
,
9789004141032
Series Statement:
Islamic History and Civilization 57
Content:
Al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī was a medieval Arabic-Islamic scholar and poet committed to the Fatimid religio-political ideology. Chief missionary for their Caliph-Imams, he founded the dynamic tradition of "Fatimid daʿwa (religious mission) poetry" that flourished after him for a thousand years through the succeeding Ṭayyibī daʿwa and continues to thrive today. This study examines the manner in which al-Muʾayyad's mission informed the aesthetic rules, motifs, structures, genres, motives, addressees, and aspirations of his poetry. It analyzes the characteristics of al-Muʾayyad's verse that render it distinctive, above all, its use of a unique form of esoteric tāwīl -based religious symbolism-metaphor, in fact, as manifestation, where what appears to be metaphor is the theological reality of the Imam. This book features a large number of original translations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī and Fatimid Daʿwa Poetry : A Case of Commitment in Classical Arabic Literature Leiden : BRILL, 2005 9789004141032
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047406365
