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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784188903321

Titolo

Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam / / edited by Sebastian Günther

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86784-1

9786610867844

90-474-0726-1

1-4337-0636-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Islamic History and Civilization ; ; 58

Disciplina

909/.09767

Soggetti

Arabic literature

Civilization

Arabic literature - History and criticism

Islamic philosophy

Islamic civilization

Islamic Empire Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword (By Tarif Khalidi); Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter One Context Equivalence: A Hitherto Insufficiently Studied Use of the Quran in Political Speeches from the Early Period of Islam (By Stephan Dähne); Chapter Two Classical Heritage and New Literary Forms: Literary Activities of Christians during the Umayyad Period (By Ute Pietruschka); Chapter Three Refuting the Charge of Tahrif: Abu Ra'ita (d. ca. 835) and his ""First Risala on the Holy Trinity"" (By Sandra Toenies Keating)

Chapter Four Meeting the Patron: An Akhbar Type and its Implications for Muhdath Poetry (By Beatrice Gruendler)Chapter Five Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sahnun and al-Jahiz on Pedagogy and Didactics (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter Six Medieval Muslim Scholarship and Social Network Analysis: A Study of the Basra/Kufa Dichotomy in Arabic Grammar (By Monique Bernards); Chapter Seven The Contribution of the Mawali to the Six Sunnite



Canonical Hadith Collections (By John Nawas)

Chapter Eight Portrayal of the Hajj as a Context for Women's Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukhari's (d. 870) ""al-Sahih"" (By Aisha Geissinger)Chapter Nine Image Formation of an Islamic Legend: Fatima, the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (By Verena Klemm); Chapter Ten Narratives and Character Development: Al-Tabari and al-Baladhuri on Late Umayyad History (By Steven C. Judd); Chapter Eleven ""The Alchemy of Happiness"": Al-Ghazali's Kimiya and the Origins of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Principles (By Alexei A. Khismatulin)

Chapter Twelve Taqlid of the Philosophers: Al-Ghazali's Initial Accusation in his Tahafut (By Frank Griffel)Chapter Thirteen The Spread of Zahirism in Post-Caliphal al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Biographical Dictionaries (By Camilla Adang); Chapter Fourteen Working within Structure: Al-Zamakhshari (d. 1144): A Late Mu'tazilite Quran Commentator at Work (By Andrew J. Lane); Chapter Fifteen The First Islamic Revolt in Mamluk Collective Memory: Ibn Bakr's (d. 1340) Portrayal of the Third Caliph 'Uthman (By Heather Keaney)

Chapter Sixteen The Sword and the Pen in the Pre-Modern Arabic Heritage: A Literary Representation of an Important Historical Relationship (By Adrian Gully)About the Authors; Indices

Sommario/riassunto

This volume deals with the genesis of selected classical Arabic texts as the products of different milieus, and the implications which these texts had for Islamic societies in medieval times. It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their writings and, in particular, ponders the ways in which these authors used specific methods of portrayal-either overtly or more subtly-to advance their ideas. The fresh theoretical and methodological approaches applied in this book facilitate the understanding of how medieval Muslim writers expressed their views and, more importantly, why they expressed them in the way they did. This helps disclose, for example, how the images of historically or religiously significant figures in Arabic-Islamic culture have been developed and shaped in the process of their "literarization.".



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793399903321

Autore

Johnson Dominic

Titolo

Unlimited action : The performance of extremity in the 1970s / / Dominic Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-3552-3

1-5261-4195-7

1-5261-3550-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Collana

Theatre: theory, practice, performance

Disciplina

700.411

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Performance art - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : performance-action-extremity -- The preferred ordeal -- A criminal touch -- The dirtying intention -- Impossible things -- The art of sabotage -- Conclusion : reckless people.-

Sommario/riassunto

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and their works, and a broader contextual milieu of artists and works, Johnson articulates a counter-history of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140334303321

Autore

Sharp Katie

Titolo

Ellen DeGeneres / / by Katie Sharp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich. : , : Lucent Books, , 2010

ISBN

1-4205-0314-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

People in the news

Disciplina

792.7028092

Soggetti

Women comedians - United States

Television personalities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: lessons in perseverance -- Growing up Ellen -- Finding Ellen -- The courage to stand up -- Coming out: "the puppy episode" -- The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Sommario/riassunto

Profiles the life and career of comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.