The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿabbāsid Poetics in Abū Al-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī's Saqṭ Al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-49927-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late 'Abbasid master-poet, Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqt al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qasidah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzum Ma La Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting ‘poetics of engagement’ and ‘poetics of disengagement’ of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suzanne P, Stetkevych

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Abbreviations

Introduction

Introduction: Approaching Saq? al-Zand: The Poetics of Engagement

Part 1 The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qa?idah

1 A Long Night’s Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys

1 Introduction

2 Section I: Nocturnes, or Lyric ‘Fragments’

3 Section II: A Master Qa?idah with Nocturnal Ra?il: A Long Night’s Journey into Day

2 Performative Poetics: The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense

1 Introduction

2 Section I: The Art of Defense: Saq? al-Zand 15 Mimiyyah

3 Section II: The Art of Self-Defense: Saq? al-Zand 16 Lamiyyah

3 The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance

1 Introduction

2 The Cooing of the Dove: Saq? al-Zand 43 Daliyyah, Ritha’ to a ?anafi faqih, Abu ?amzah

3 The Cawing of the Crow: Saq? al-Zand 60 Fa?iyyah, Ritha? to al-Sharif al-?ahir al-Musawi

4 Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia

1 Introduction

2 SZ 58: Our Camels’ Yearning

3 Saq? al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisra and Tubba?

Part 2 Stylistic Poetics and Postclassical Aesthetics

Introduction: Approaching Al-Luzumiyyat: The Poetics of Disengagement and Poetry as Programmatic Project

5 Irony, Archeology, and ‘Stopping at the Ruins’: Two Readings of the ?asmu Luzumiyyah

1 Introduction

2 Section I: Irony, Archeology, and Stopping at the Ruins

3 Section II: Lexical Exile and the Tyranny of the Rhyme

4 Conclusion

6 Labid, ?Abid, and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of the Poetic Past in Al-Luzumiyyat

1 Introduction

2 Conclusion

Conclusion: Beyond the Great Divide

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne Pickney Stetkevych, Ph.D. (1981), The University of Chicago, is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Her publications on Classical Arabic poetry include The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad (2010).