LEADER 05572oam 2200721M 450 001 9910453639403321 005 20200324081404.0 010 $a0-415-59579-7 010 $a1-315-82360-8 010 $a1-317-83236-1 010 $a1-317-83237-X 024 3 $a9780700714902 035 $a(CKB)2550000001172330 035 $a(EBL)1583366 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001173815 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11667635 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001173815 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11105124 035 $a(PQKB)10699669 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1583366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1583366 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10875899 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL553635 035 $a(OCoLC)866858444 035 $a(OCoLC)1066649350 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1066649350 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315823607 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001172330 100 $a20020118j20021220 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedieval Arabic Praise Poetry $eIbn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption 210 $cRoutledge [Imprint]$dDec. 2002$aAbingdon $cTaylor & Francis Group$aFlorence $cTaylor & Francis Group [distributor] 215 $a1 online resource (702 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledgeCurzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures 300 $a"Transferred to Digital Printing 2010"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-7007-1490-1 311 $a1-306-22384-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on quotes and translations; Note on transliteration and dating; Glossary; Part I: Setting the stage; 1. The background: Poetry and poets in early Abbasid society; The audience; The patrons; The poets; 2. The form: The Abbasid praise qasi?da; History of research; The textual approach; The intertextual approach; The contextual approach; Constraint and variety; 3. The approach: Madi?h and pragmatics; Literary speech situation (context) and genre; The criteria and types of poetic dialogue 327 $aExcursus into the theory of speech actsCharacterization, dramaturgy, poetic argument, and ethics; 4. The protagonists: Ibn al-Ru?mi? and his patron 'Ubaydalla?h b. 'Abdalla?h; 5. The madi?h exchanged between Ibn al-Ru?mi? and 'Ubaydalla?h; The practice of praise; A note on the textual sources; Themes of the Qasa?'id; The strophe; The antistrophe; The metastrophe; The speech acts of praise; Part II: Speech and characterization; 6. Speech as action; Speech of humans; Speech figuratively attributed to inanimate objects and abstract concepts; Figurative reinterpretation of verbal acts 327 $a7. The dramatis personaeFictional personae; The accuser; White hair; Youth; Minor fictional personae; Historical personae; The patron; The poet; Part III: The dramaturgy; 8. The scene; The dialogue scene; The extended dialogue scene; The unintroduced dialogue; The address; The evocation; The monologue; The implicit and impersonal speaker; 9. The episode and its witnesses; Witnesses speaking or addressed in the episode; Witnesses quoted in the episode; 10. 'The passion of him whose parting has grayed is affectation' (L191); 11. 'They aimed at my heart from the gaps of veils' (L1042) 327 $aPart IV: Verbal ornament12. Supporting figures of speech; Syntactic figures; Anaphora; Reprise; Semantic figures; Sententia and analogy; The recurring motif; 13. Phantasmagoria; Part V: Ibn al-Ru?mi?'s ethics of patronage; 14. In the mirror of madi?h; The scenes between poet and patron; The historical relationship; The function of the poem; 15. Mutual duties and rights of benefactor and prote?ge?; Examples of scenes: A1160, F1243, and A1510; First example; Second example; Third example; 16. Acts and words between panegyrist and model; Acts and words, their order and congruity 327 $aThe praise matches the actsThe praise cannot live up to the acts; The acts themselves compose praise through causal hyperbole; The acts claim ancient praise and re-attribute it to the patron; Praise precedes the acts; Examples of scenes: A694, F1373', A464/F1373', and A1171/A212/L215; The acts precede the praise, and the praise matches them; The praise cannot live up to the acts; The acts themselves compose praise through causal hyperbole; The acts claim ancient praise and re-attribute it to 'Ubaydalla?h; Praise preceding acts and not yet redeemed; Recapitulation 327 $aConclusion: Dramaturgy as a rhetoric of ethics. 330 8 $aAnnotation$bThis book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat. 410 0$aRoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures. 606 $aLaudatory poetry, Arabic$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArabic poetry$y750-1258$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaudatory poetry, Arabic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a892.7/134 700 $aGruendler$b Beatrice$f1964-$0690106 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453639403321 996 $aMedieval Arabic Praise Poetry$92135579 997 $aUNINA