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The Qurʼan and the aesthetics of premodern Arabic prose / Sarah R. bin Tyeer ; foreword by Angelika Neuwirth.
Author
Bin Tyeer, Sarah R.
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
©2016
Description
xv, 306 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BP134.A38 B56 2016
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Aesthetics in the Qurʼan
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Arabic literature
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1258-1800
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History
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Aesthetics in literature
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Qurʼan
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Series
Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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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.
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Koran and the aesthetics of premodern Arabic prose
ISBN
113759988X
9781137599889
OCLC
945979569
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