Early Islamic poetry and poetics /
edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
- Farnham: Ashgate/Variorum, c2009.
- xxxviii, 428 p. ; 25 cm.
- (Formation of the classical Islamic world), v. 37 .
Includes bibliographical references ([xxxi]-xxxviii) and index.
Oral composition in pre-Islamic poetry / James T. Monroe -- Structuralist interpretations of pre-Islamic poetry : critique and new directions / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Islamic kingship and Arabic panegyric poetry in the early 9th century / Stefan Sperl -- The poetic coterie of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil, d. 247 H. : a contribution to the analysis of authorities of socio-literary legitimation / J.E. Bencheikh -- The uses of the Qaṣīda : thematic and structural patterns in a poem of Bashshār / Julie Scott Meisami -- 'Abbāsid praise poetry in light of dramatic discourse and speech act theory / Beatrice Gruendler -- Revisiting Layla al-Akhyaliya's trespass / Dana Sajdi -- Time and reality in Nasīb and Ghazal / Renate Jacobi -- Heterotopia and the wine poem in early Islamic culture / Yaseen Noorani -- Sensibility and synaesthesia : Ibn al-Rūmī's singing slave-girl / Akiko Motoyoshi -- Name and epithet : the philology and semiotics of animal nomenclature in early Arabic poetry / Jaroslav Stetkevych -- Guises of the Ghūl : dissembling simile and semantic overflow in the classical Arabic Nasīb / Michael A. Sells -- From primary to secondary Qaṡīdas : thoughts on the development of classical Arabic poetry / M.M. Badawi -- Toward a redefinition of 'Badīʻ' poetry / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.