The Qurʼan and the aesthetics of premodern Arabic prose / Sarah R. bin Tyeer ; foreword by Angelika Neuwirth.

Author
Bin Tyeer, Sarah R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xv, 306 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.

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    Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This book approaches the Qur'an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur'an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of "decontextualisation" and the "untranslatable." This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as One Thousand and One Nights and The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin's aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction
    • Part I
    • 2. Husn: The Route to a Conceptual Query
    • 3. Qubh and the Way to Hell
    • 4. Hell and the Aesthetics of Qubh
    • 5. Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech
    • pt. II Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights
    • 6. The Aesthetics of Reason
    • 7. Of Misplacement of Things, People, and Decorum
    • 8. The Transgression of Reason
    • pt. III Canonical Literature
    • 9. Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful
    • 10. The Litterateurs of Hell and Heaven
    • 11. CODA: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship.
    Other title(s)
    Koran and the aesthetics of premodern Arabic prose
    ISBN
    • 113759988X
    • 9781137599889
    OCLC
    945979569
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