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The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature: Orientology

The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature: Orientology

Durakovic, Esad

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

IslamFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138854670
ISBN13: 9781138854673
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Through analysing ancient and classical Arabic literature, including the Qur'an, from within the Arabic literary tradition, this book provides an original interpretation of poetics, and of other important aspects of Arab culture.

Ancient Arabic literature is a realm of poetry; prose literary forms emerged rather late, and even then remained in the shadow of poetic creative efforts. Traditionally, this literature has been viewed through a philologist's lens and has often been represented as 'materialistic' in the sense that its poetry lacked imagination. As a result, Arabic poetry was often evaluated negatively in relation to other poetic traditions. The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature argues that old Arabic literature is remarkably coherent in poetical terms and has its own individuality, and that claims of its materialism arise from a failure to grasp the poetic principles of the Arabic tradition. Analysing the Qur'an, which is known for confronting the poetry of the time, this book reveals that post Qur'anic literature came to be defined against it. Thus, the constitution and interpretation of Arabic literature imposed itself as a particular exegesis of the sacred Text.

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