The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Sarah R. bin Tyeer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2018 | Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781349956012 (ISBN)

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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.

Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Sarah R. bin Tyeer is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK. Her recent publications include essays in the volumes: Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Classical Literary Tradition, The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, and The City in Premodern and Modern Arabic Literature. Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth.- Introduction.- Part I The Hermeneutics of the Qurʾan for the Arts: Key Terms.- Chapter One Ḥusn: The Route to a Conceptual Query.- Chapter Two Qubḥ and the Way to Hell.- Chapter Three Hell and the Aesthetics of qubḥ.- Chapter Four Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech.- Part II Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights.- Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Reason. - Chapter 6 Of Misplacement of Things, People and Decorum.- Chapter 7 The Transgression of Reason.- Part III Canonical Literature.- Chapter 8 Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful.- Chapter 9 The Littérateurs of Hell and Heaven.- Coda: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; XV, 306 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	1 Classical Arabic Literature • 2 The Qur’an and Literature • 3 Adab • 4 Misinterpretation • 5 The Carnivalesque
ISBN-13	9781349956012 / 9781349956012
Zustand	Neuware