Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past /

Ali, Samer M.

Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / Samer M. Ali. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010. - xi, 294 p. ; 23 cm. - Poetics of orality and literacy . - Poetics of orality and literacy. .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujåalasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujåalasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buòhturåi's åiwåan kisråa ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujåalasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion.

9780268020323 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268020329 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Arabic poetry--History and criticism.--750-1258
Salons--Islamic Empire.
Oral tradition--Islamic Empire.
Poesía árabe--Historia y crítica.


Islamic Empire--Intellectual life.

PJ 7553 / A398a 2010

892.7/13409