TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Samer M.
TI  - Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past 
T2  - Poetics of orality and literacy
SN  - 9780268020323 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PJ 7553 A398a 2010
U1  - 892.7/13409 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Notre Dame, Ind.
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - Arabic poetry
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Salons
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Poesía árabe
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
ER  -