Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

<p>Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, <i>The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry </i>incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. <i>The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry </i>actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of the Arabic tradition with other Middle Eastern traditions, such as Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, and on South-South ideological and poetic networks of solidarity that have informed poetic currents across the modern Middle East. This volume will be ideal for scholars and students of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and comparative literature, as well as non-specialists interested in poetry and in the present moment of the study of Arabic poetry.</p> <p><strong>Preface</strong></p><p><strong>Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The <i>Rāʾiyya</i> of Imruʾ al-Qays</strong></p><p><em>Pamela Klasova</em></p><p><strong>Parody and the Creation of the <b><i>Muḥdath </i></b><i>Ghazal</i></strong></p><p><em>Ahmad Almallah</em></p><p><strong>Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies</strong></p><p><em>Akiko Sumi</em></p><p><strong>Andalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)</strong></p><p><em>James T. Monroe</em></p><p><strong>Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition</strong></p><p><em>Ross Brann</em></p><p><strong>Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu:</strong></p><p><strong> Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco</strong></p><p><em>Carl Davila</em></p><p><strong>Ibn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the <i>Tilimsāniyyāt </i>(Poems on Tlemcen)</strong></p><p><em>Nizar F. Hermes</em></p><p><strong>The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature</strong></p><p><em>Yaseen Noorani</em></p><p><strong>Ka</strong><strong>ʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry</strong></p><p><em>C. Ceyhun Arslan</em></p><p><strong>Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in <i>Plutoland</i> (1947)</strong></p><p><em>Levi Thompson</em></p><p><strong>The <i>Ṣaʿālīk</i> Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān Dammū</strong></p><p><em>Suneela Mubayi</em></p><p><strong>Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery</strong></p><p><em>Sayed Elsisi</em></p><p><strong>Disturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry</strong></p><p><em>Clarissa Burt</em></p><p><strong>The Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity</strong></p><p><em>Hatem Alzahrani</em></p>