Beatrice Gruendler

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317832379
• Artikelnr.: 40299512

Autorenporträt

Beatrice Gruendler

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Stage 1. Background 2. The Form: The Abbasid Praise
Qasida 3. The Approach: Mad'ih and Pragmatics 4. The Protagonists: Ibn
al-Rum'i and His Patron, Ubaydall'ah b. Abdall'ah 5. The Mah'ih Exchanged
between Ibn al-Rum'i and Ubaydall Part 2: Speech and Characterization 6.
Speech as Action 7. The Dramatis Personae Part 3: The Dramaturgy 8. The
Scene 9. The Episode and its Witnesses 10. 'The Passion of Him Whose
Parting Has Grayed its Affection' Translation of £191 11. 'They Aimed at My
Heart From the Gaps of Veils' Translation of £1042 x Preliminaries Part 4:
Verbal Ornament 12. Supporting Figures of Speech 13. Phantasmagoria Part 5:
Ibn al-Rum'i's Ethics of Patronage 14. On the Mirror of Mad'ih 15. Mutual
Duties and Rights of Benefactor and Protégé 16. Acts and Words between
Panegyrist and Model Conclusion: Dramaturgy as a Rhetoric of Ethics