The Qur'an and Adab
The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 January 2017
- ISBN 9780198787181
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages600 pages
- Size 222x145x53 mm
- Weight 938 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A collection of essays which demonstrate the Qur'an's impact on Arabic and Persian literary traditions.
MoreLong description:
Though there have been many studies on the Qur'an's importance in tafs?r (Qur'anic commentary), there are comparatively few which look at the impact of the Qur'an on other forms of literature. The Qur'an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam bridges the gap in the scholarship by placing the Qur'an in its broader cultural and literary contexts. It explores the Qur'an's relation to classical literary traditions (adab) from pre-Islamic times until the fifteenth century CE, focusing on the various ways in which the classical literati (udab?") engaged with the Qur'anic text, linguistically, conceptually, structurally, and aesthetically, to create works that combined the sacred with the profane, thereby blurring the boundaries between formal tafs?r and adab.
Through a detailed introduction and a series of case studies, the volume rethinks the concept of adab and the relation of scripture to humanistic traditions in classical Islam and questions the general classification of adab as belles-lettres. It examines the religious aesthetic found in different types of adab works--poetry, literary criticism, epistles, oratory traditions, anthologies, 'mirrors for princes', folklore, and mystical/Sufi literature. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, the collection investigate the intertextuality between pre-lslamic poetry and the Qur'an, and the innumerable approaches to the Qur'an by classical authors. It discusses the various citation techniques employed in the udab?"'s borrowing of Qur'anic language, concepts, and stories. The chapters explain how the choice of these techniques was determined by the literary conventions of the particular genres and contexts within which the udab?" were working, as well as by their authorial intention, theological, and ideological outlooks. They also highlight the link between the functions ascribed to Qur'anic quotations in a specific text and the need to convey a particular message to specific audiences.
Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: The Relation of Adab to the Qur'an: Conceptual and Historical Framework
Section I: The Qur'an and Classical Arabic Poetry: Intertextuality and Sensibilities
The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing a Cultural Shift in Arab Late Antiquity
The Qur'an and the Character of Pre-Islamic Poetry: The D?liyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshal? (d. 600 CE)
Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an
Section II: The Qur'an in Literary Criticism
The Qur'an in Kit?b al-Bad?' by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)
'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'?lib? (d. 429/1030) Kit?b al-Iqtib?s min al-Qur'?n al-Kar?m
Section III: The Qur'an as a Moral, Literary, and Aesthetic Model
The Place of the Qur'an in 'The Sermons and Exhortations' of Ab? 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)
Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Ab?'l-'Al?' al-Ma'arr?'s (d. 449/1058) al-Fu??l wa'l-Gh?y?t and Its Reception
The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: ?ik?yat Ab?'l-Q?sim al-Baghd?d? by Ab?'l-Mu?ahhar al-Azd? (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)
Part IV: Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab : Five Case Studies
Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khu?ba): Mnemonic, Liturgical, and Testimonial Functions
The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-?am?d b. Yahya al-Katib (d. 132/750)
The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Far?d by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalus? (d. 328/940)
Wisdom and Justice: The Reception of the Qur'an in Some Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes
Solomon's Ring in the Arabic Literary Imaginary
Part V: The Qur'an in Sufi Literature
Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Ab? Sa'?d al-Kharr?z (d. 286/899)
Ibn 'Arab? (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems
'Serving from Afar': Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an
Bibliography
Index of Qur'anic Citations
General Index
