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Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful by Abū Manṣūr Al-Thaʿālib&#299

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature: Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful by Abū Manṣūr Al-Thaʿālibī

Al-Thaʿālibī, Abū Manṣūr
Van Gelder, Geert Jan
Van Gelder, Geert Jan

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004691006
ISBN13: 9789004691001
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: Arabic
In his Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful (Taḥsīn al-qabīḥ wa-taqbīḥ al-ḥasan) the prolific anthologist al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038) offers a thematically arranged selection of Arabic poems and prose anecdotes or sayings with contrary or paradoxical purport, such as praise of miserliness, boredom, sickness, and death, or condemnation of generosity, intelligence, youth, and music. The book is both entertaining and informative, giving insight in premodern Arab and Islamic culture. It contains a new edition of the Arabic text and a complete English translation (the first in any language) with extensive annotation, preceded by an introduction with the necessary background of the genre.

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