Short description:

Comprised of leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition.

Long description:

Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of the Arabic tradition with other Middle Eastern traditions, such as Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, and on South-South ideological and poetic networks of solidarity that have informed poetic currents across the modern Middle East. This volume will be ideal for scholars and students of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and comparative literature, as well as non-specialists interested in poetry and in the present moment of the study of Arabic poetry.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The R??iyya of Imru? al-Qays

Pamela Klasova

Parody and the Creation of the Mu?dath Ghazal

Ahmad Almallah

Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies

Akiko Sumi

Andalus? Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: ?Zajal 145? by Ibn Quzm?n (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)

James T. Monroe

Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition

Ross Brann

Wa-mat? il? dh?ka al-maq?mi wu??lu:

Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco

Carl Davila

Ibn Kham?s and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilims?niyy?t (Poems on Tlemcen)

Nizar F. Hermes

The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature

Yaseen Noorani

Ka?b ibn Zuhayr?Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Ma?r?f al-Ru??f??s Poetry

C. Ceyhun Arslan

Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry?s Back in Plutoland (1947)

Levi Thompson

The ?a??l?k Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds ?usayn Mard?n and J?n Damm?

Suneela Mubayi

Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery

Sayed Elsisi

Disturbing Vision: Zarq?? al-Yam?ma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Clarissa Burt

The Poet as Palm Tree: Mu?ammad al-Thubayt? and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity

Hatem Alzahrani