Classical Arabic Verse: History and Theory of 'Arūḍ

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-10932-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Studies in Arabic Literature

Offering a vast panorama of the history of Arabic verse in its relation to Semitic verse, this work follows stages of its evolution from parallelistic pattern to the emergence of the three basic rhythms and then of the unique system of ‘ArÅ«dÌ£.
It proposes a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory including the famous "circles of Khalī as a kind of generative device and traces its relation to the grammatical and lexicographical theories of al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad.
The monograph provides the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, puts forward a hypothesis about the existence of the archaic Hiran metrical school side by side with the Bedouin school and describes main metrical types of Arabic poetry: Bedouin, ḥīran, (‘Abbasid), Classical, Andalusian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frolov, Dimitry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Dmitry V. Frolov, Ph.D. (1980) in Arabic Linguistics, Litt.D. (1991) in Arabic Literature, both in Moscow University, is Professor of Arabic Philology at Moscow State University. He has published extensively on Arabic philology, grammar and metrics, Qur'anic and Islamic studies.