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Author:

Ali, Samer M.

Title:

Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / Samer M. Ali.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 294 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism.
Salons--Islamic Empire.
Oral tradition--Islamic Empire.
Islamic Empire--Intellectual life.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buḥturī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion.

Series:

Poetics of orality and literacy

ISBN:

0268020329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268020323 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664555776

LCCN:

2010037737

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)