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Title Classical Arabic literature : a library of Arabic literature anthology / selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, 2013.

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Description xxviii, 468 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Library of Arabic literature
Library of Arabic literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Verse -- Prose.
Summary A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Both entertaining and informative, Classical Arabic Literature ranges from the early Bedouin poems with their evocation of desert life to refined urban lyrical verse, from tender love poetry to sonorous eulogy and vicious lampoon, and from the heights of mystical rapture to the frivolity of comic verse. Prose selections include anecdotes, entertaining or edifying tales and parables, a fairy-tale, a bawdy story, samples of literary criticism, and much more. With this anthology, distinguished Arabist Geert Jan van Gelder brings together well-known texts as well as less familiar pieces new even to scholars. Classical Arabic Literature reveals the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts flourished alongside religious ones. This masterful anthology introduces this vibrant literary heritage--including pieces translated into English for the first time--to a wide spectrum of new readers.
Contents Letter from the general editor / Phillip F. Kennedy -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction. -- Verse: A Qaṣīdah / 'Abīd ibn al-Abraṣ -- A Qaṣīdah / 'Alqamah ibn 'Abadah -- A Qaṣīdah / al-Muthaqqib al-'Abdī -- An Elegy (Marthiyah) / al-Khansā' -- Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qaṣīdah / al-Akhṭal -- Love in the Desert: A Qaṣīdah / Dhū l-Rummah -- An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, used as an Abbasid Song Text -- An 'Udhrī Ghazal attributed to Majnūn Laylā -- An Umayyad Ghazal / 'Umar ibn Abī Rabī 'ah -- A Love Poem / Umm Khālid -- Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hijā') / Bashshār ibn Burd -- A Modern (Muhdath) Ghazal Epigram / Abū Nuwās -- A Ghazal: On a Boy Called 'Alī / Abū Nuwās -- Two Wine Poems / Abū Nuwās -- A Lampooning Epigram (Hijā') / Abū Nuwās -- A Ghazal Poem / al-'Abbās ibn al-Aḥnaf -- Three Love Epigrams / 'Ulayyah bint al-Mahdī -- A Poem of Asceticism (Zuhdiyyah) / Abū l-'Atāhiyah -- Ibn al Rūmī: On His Poetry -- A Qaṣīdah: A Party at 'Abd al-Malik ibn ṣāliḥ al-Hāshimī's / Ibn al-Rūmī -- A Panegyric Qaṣīdah / al-Buḥturī -- A Victory Ode: The Qaṣīdah on Sayf al-Dawlah's Recapture of the Fortress of al-ḥadath / al-Mutanabbī -- Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams / Ibn Khafājah -- Strophic Poem: A Muwashshaḥah / al-A 'mā al-Tuṭīlī -- An Anonymous Muwashshaḥah from Spain -- There Descended to You: A Philosophical Allegory / Ibn Sīnā -- Five Epigrams on Death and Belief / Abū l-'Alā al-Ma' 'arrī -- Mystical Ghazal: A Poem / Ibn al-Fāriḍ -- A Mystical Zajal / al-Shushtarī -- Two Elegies on the Death of his Concubine / Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī -- A Zajal: An Elegy on the Elephant Marzūq -- Early Rajaz -- A Few Lines from the Poem of Proverbs / Abū l-'Atāhiyah -- A Few Lines from The Thousand Liner / Ibn Mālik -- Light Verse: A Domestic Disaster / Abū l-ḥakam al Maghribī -- "Didactic" Verse: From a Poem on How to Behave in Society / Ibn Makānis. --
Prose: Examples of Early Rhymed Prose (Saj ') -- A Pre-Islamic Tale: The Princess on the Myrtle Leaf (Three Versions) -- How the Queen of Sheba Became Queen -- Two Stories from Meadows of Gold / al-Mas 'ūdī -- Lives of the Poets: al Farazdaq Tells the Story of Imru' al-Qays and the Girls at the Pond -- Bedouin Romance: The Unhappy Love Story of Qays and Lubnā -- A Parable: The Human Condition, or The Man in the Pit -- Mirror for Princes (and Others): Passages from Right Conduct / Ibn al-Muqaffa ' -- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Flies and Other Things -- Essayistic Prose: Al Tawḥīdī on the Superiority of the Arabs -- History as Literature: Al-Amīn and al-Ma'mūn, the Sons of Hārūn al-Rashīd -- Moral Tales and Parables: Passages from The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren -- Prose Narrative: Four Stories by al-Tanūkhī -- The Isfahan Maqāmah / Badī ' al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī -- The Debate of Pen and Sword / Aḥmad Ibn Burd al-Aṣghar -- A Visit to Heaven and Hell / Abū l-'Alā' al-Ma' 'arrī -- Poetics: Ibn Rashīq on the Definition and Structure of Poetry -- Literary Criticism: From The Secrets of Eloquence / 'Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī -- Popular Science: Two Chapters from the Encyclopedia of Animals / al-Damīrī -- A Section from an Adab Encyclopedia: The Chapter on Stinginess from The Precious and Refined in Every Genre and Kind / al-Ibshīhī -- A Fairytale: The Tale of the Forty Girls -- Erotica: The Young Girl and the Dough Kneader, from The Old Man's Rejuvenation / al-Tifāshī -- Two Burlesque Stories from Brains Confounded / al-Shirbīnī -- Lyrical Prose: A Visit to the Bath / al ḥaymī al-Kawkabānī.
Language Parallel Arabic text and English translation.
Subject Arabic literature -- Translations into English.
Arabic literature. (OCoLC)fst00812478
Literatur
Arabisch
Genre/Form Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Added Author Gelder, G. J. H. van.
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