The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-95601-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 4198 g

Reihe: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of “decontextualisation” and the “untranslatable.” This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as One Thousand and One Nights and The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin’s aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.

Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bin Tyeer, Sarah R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth.- Introduction.- Part I The Hermeneutics of the Qur?an for the Arts: Key Terms.- Chapter One ?usn: The Route to a Conceptual Query.- Chapter Two Qub? and the Way to Hell.- Chapter Three Hell and the Aesthetics of qub?.- Chapter Four Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech.- Part II Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights.- Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Reason. - Chapter 6 Of Misplacement of Things, People and Decorum.- Chapter 7 The Transgression of Reason.- Part III Canonical Literature.- Chapter 8 Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful.- Chapter 9 The Littérateurs of Hell and Heaven.- Coda: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship. 

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah R. bin Tyeer is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK.  Her recent publications include essays in the volumes: Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Classical Literary Tradition, The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, and The City in Premodern and Modern Arabic Literature.
Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.