Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.
Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.
Jaroslav Stetkevych is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments and The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasîb. His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.
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Introduction: Reclaiming Arabian Myth 1. The Textual Puzzle 2. The Thamudic Backdrop to the Puzzle 3. The First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on Tabuk 4. The Totem and the Taboo 5. Poeticizing the Thamud 6. Demythologizing the Thamud 7. The Scream 8. The Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and Gilgamesh Conclusion
Introduction: Reclaiming Arabian Myth 1. The Textual Puzzle 2. The Thamudic Backdrop to the Puzzle 3. The First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on Tabuk 4. The Totem and the Taboo 5. Poeticizing the Thamud 6. Demythologizing the Thamud 7. The Scream 8. The Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and Gilgamesh Conclusion
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