The Qurʼan and Adab : the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam / edited by Nuha Alshaar.

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  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xxvi, 636 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 565 - 606) and indexes.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction: The Relation of Adab to the Qur'an: Conceptual and Historical Framework / Nuha Alshaar
  • Section I. The Qur'an and Classical Arabic Poetry: Intertextuality and Sensibilities
  • 2. The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing a Cultural Shift in Arab Late Antiquity/ Angelika Neuwirth
  • 3. The Qur'an and the Character of Pre-Islamic Poetry: The Dāliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshalī (d. 600 CE)/ Ghassan El-Massri
  • 4. Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an/ Beatrice Gruendler
  • Section II. The Qur'an in Literary Criticism
  • 5. The Qur'an in Kitāb al-Badī' by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)/ Geert Jan van Gelder
  • 6. 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'ālibī's (d. 429/1030) Kitāb al-Iqtibās min al-Qur'ān al-Karīm/ Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz
  • Section III. The Qur'an as a Moral, Literary and Aesthetic Model
  • 7. The Place of the Qur'an in 'The Sermons and Exhortations' of Abū 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)/ Andrew Rippin
  • 8. Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abū'l-'Alā' al-Ma'arrī's (d. 449/1058) al-Fucūl wa'l-Ghāyāt and Its Reception/ Devin Stewart
  • 9. The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: $ikāyat Abī'l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī by Abū'l-Mumahhar al-Azdī (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)/ Sarah R. bin Tyeer
  • Part IV. Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies
  • 10. Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khumba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions/ Tahera Qutbuddin
  • 11. The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-$amīd b. Yaḥya al-Kātib (d. 132/750)/ Wadad al-Qadi
  • 12. The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farīd by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940)/ Nuha Alshaar
  • 13. Wisdom and Justice: The Reception of the Qur'an in Some Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes/ Louise Marlow
  • 14. Solomon's Ring in the Arabic Literary Imaginary/ Wen-chin Ouyang
  • Part V. The Qur'an in Sufi Literature
  • 15. Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abū Sa'īd al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899)/ Nada Saab
  • 16. Ibn 'Arabī (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems/ Denis McAuley
  • 17. 'Serving from Afar': Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an/ Steffen Stelzer.
Other title(s)
  • Shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam
  • Quran and Adab
ISBN
  • 9780198787181 ((hardback))
  • 0198787189 ((hardback))
OCLC
970393251
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