How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

Author
Adam Talib
Publisher
Brill Academic
Language
English
Year
2017
Page
337
ISBN
9004349960,9789004349964
File Type
pdf
File Size
8.7 MiB

The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic? is the first study of this highly popular and adaptable genre of Arabic poetry. By addressing this lacuna, the book models an alternative comparative literature, one in which the history of Arabic poetry has as much to tell us about epigrams as does Greek.

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