The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late Abbasid Poetics in Abu Al-Ala Al-Maarri’s Saq Al-Zand and Luzum Ma La Yalzam: 43 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures) - Hardcover

Stetkevych Suzanne P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900449927X ISBN 13: 9789004499270

Publisher: BRILL, 2022

Synopsis

In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late ʿAbbāsid master-poet, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqṭ al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qaṣīdah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics.

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About the Author

Suzanne Pickney Stetkevych, Ph.D. (1981), The University of Chicago, is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Her publications on Classical Arabic poetry include The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Mu¿ammad (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900449927X
• ISBN 13: 9789004499270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400