Ethics and poetry in sixth-century Arabia

✍ Scribed by Jamil, Nadia;

• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1909724971

✦ Synopsis

This is a much-needed study of pre-Islamic poetry from Arabia. It fills a key gap in understanding not only the history of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. What emerges is a complex, stylized discourse which reflects a distinctive cosmology.;Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1 Ethics and Poetry: The Story to Date; 1:1. Ḥilm and Jahl, Murūwa and Dīn: Once More unto the Breach; Goldziher; Farès; Izutsu; Bravmann; Islām: The Commercial Connection; 1:2. Return to the Jāhilīya: How Does a Poem Work?; Fragmentations; The Primitive Link; Perambulation around Parataxis, True Love and Sin; The Art of the Poet Unconscious; The Conversely Conscious Homer; The Poet Resuscitated; The Purpose-free and the Purposeful; The Jumbled Mind and the Rhetoric of Vision; Cohesions