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The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose de Sarah R. bin Tyeer

The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

Autor Sarah R. bin Tyeer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2018
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.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349956012
ISBN-10: 1349956015
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: XV, 306 p. 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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. 

Recenzii

"In this complex book the author adopts a bold approach, shows a willingness to take some risks, and undertakes a lively engagement with the material ... . The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose remains a highly original work that creatively combines attention to key qurʾānic concepts with the interpretation of Arabic literary texts." (Devin J. Stewart, Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 7 (7), 2021)

“The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose is a brilliant book. It enriches the field at the theoretical level and proposes original, well-informed, and highly plausible readings of premodern Arabic prose. It also illustrates the problems and dangers of decontextualized, anachronistic, and atomistic readings and offers efficient remedies to them.In so doing, the book joins other efforts to herald a new era in Arabic literary criticism which promises deeper appreciation of the tradition’s intellectual legacy.” (Sarra Tlili, Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 50, 2019)
“Bin Tyeer shows persuasively that ‘Islam’ has often been reduced to a caricature of puritanism, and that such a view has prevented people from considering the cultural bounty of the Middle East as owing to Islam, not being in spite of it. ... Islam, contrary to its stereotyped depictions in mainstream Western media, does have a rich tradition of creativity, humor, and complicatedness. Recognizing this reality should, says Bin Tyeer, be the starting point for a more generous view of the Islamic cultural tradition.” (Kevin Blankinship, Marginalia Review of Books, July, 2018)

Notă biografică

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.

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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 methodologyis sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.    

Caracteristici

Examines the foundations of aesthetics in Arabic literature via the Qur’an Considers classic Arabic literature through philological, historical, philosophical, and linguistic discourses Studies questions of translation and context for reading adab