The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam

Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21045-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

This is a study of the life and work of Ibn Daniyal (d. 1310), a Cairo-based eye doctor, poet, playwright, court jester, and arguably one of the most controversial cultural figures of his time. Drawing on medieval Arabic sources, many still in manuscript and some used for the first time, the author further contextualizes Ibn Daniyal’s work with respect to poetry production and popular culture in the Islamic Near East in the post-Mongol period. The book also presents the first full English translation of “The Phantom,” one of Ibn Daniyal’s three shadow plays, the only surviving pre-Ottoman Arabic theatrical texts.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in cultural history of medieval Islam, Arabic literature, Arabic poetry, Arab popular culture, Arabic drama, comparative literature, world history of shadow play.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guo, Li

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Part One: Life as a Play
Act 1: Eye doctor and street buffoon
Act 2: Court panegyrist and jester
Act 3: Satirist and shadow playwright

Part Two: Legacy and Controversy
The making of the Arabic shadow play
The ornament of the poetry
The many faces of a performer

Part Three: The Play
The Phantom: A shadow play

Appendix 1: Manuscripts
Appendix 2: Sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Guo, Li
Li Guo, Ph.D. (1994) in Arabic Studies, Yale University, is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. His recent publication is Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir (Brill, 2004).