Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Moreover, the book traces the discussion and debate surrounding the role of the magazine by investigating the content of the accusations against it implying that the magazine sought to undermine the foundations of Arab heritage represented in standard Arabic ( fuṣḥā) and traditional Arabic poetry. It certainly deserves to be on every Egyptologist's bookshelf, and we will benefit from its insights. This groundbreaking book uses the conceptual world of classical Arabic poetics ('ilm al-balagha) to 'decolonize the overwhelming, illogical divorce between linguistic and literary studies' of ancient Egyptian.

It certainly deserves to be on every Egyptologist’s bookshelf, and we will benefit from its insights. The series Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Litrature, founded in 1971, is concerned with all kinds of literary expression in Arabic, including the oral and vernacular traditions, of both the modern and the classical periods. The remaining three chapters turn back to Jurjānī and his primary successors, Sirhāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī (d.Arabic Poetics offers an answer to what this pertinent question looked like at the height of the Islamic civilization. Moreover, we shall see that the majority of these texts were translated into prose, which enabled an intensification of the poetic Arabic sentence and consequently, to advance Arabic free verse and prose-poems. The objective of this book is therefore a double one: to radicalize Egyptological method through the deployment of Arabic literary and critical methods, and to refresh the study of ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics.

The Introduction presents the argument that aesthetic judgment in classical Arabic literary theory came to depend on the ability of poetry or eloquent speech to produce an experience of wonder in the listener. Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics offers a groundbreaking postcolonial perspective on Egyptological method and theory by challenging the use of Eurocentric literary theories, terms, and concepts, and refreshing the study of ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics.

but the Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature contains a wealth of accurate and concise information on all the major figures, movements, and techniques in the classical tradition (as well as reference to modern works up to its time of publishing in 1998). Harb shows how the philosophers went through a trajectory similar to that of poetic criticism in that they began with defining poetry through a true-false scale, as evident in Fārābī’s writings, who, in turn, laid the foundations for Ibn Sīnā to define poetry through takhyīl, and consequently, its ability to incite the soul with wonder (76). However, the Arab cultural project has constantly been led by the religious branch of its culture, and therefore, the creative and linguistic processes have always moved within this frame.

By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Its early ‘anti-heritage’ approach led to a severe conflict with Lebanese and other Arab literary sectors, which accused its members of attempting to destroy Arab heritage.Moreover, some scholars refuse to have any connection with the past and cut their ties with it as a representative of imitation and absolutely deny interest in anything that comes from traditions and heritage.