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The poetics of Islamic legitimacy : myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode
- Title
- The poetics of Islamic legitimacy : myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
- Author
- Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
- Publication
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2002.
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- Description
- xvi, 383 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.
- Language (note)
- Arabic and English.
- Contents
- Transgression and redemption: cuckolding the King, al-Na⁻bighah al-Dhubyn and the pre-Islamic royal ode -- Transmission and submission: praising the Prophet, Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr and the Islamic ode -- Celebration and restoration: praising the caliph, al-Akhṭal and the Umayyad victory ode -- Supplication and negotiation: the client outraged, al-Akhṭal and the supplicatory ode -- Political dominion as sexual domination, Ab⁻u al-ʻAt⁻ahiyah, Ab⁻u Tamm⁻am, and the poetics of power -- The poetics of political allegiance, praise and blame in three odes by al-Mutanabb⁻i -- The poetics of ceremony and the competition for legitimacy, al-Muhannad al-Baghd⁻ad⁻i, Muḥammad ibn Shukhayṣ, Ibn Darra⁻j al-Qasall⁻i, and the Andalusian ode.
- Call Number
- *OFC 02-8908
- ISBN
- 0253341191 (alk. paper)
- 0253215366 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001008295
- OCLC
- 48649785
- Author
- Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
- Title
- The poetics of Islamic legitimacy : myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
- Imprint
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.
- Language
- Arabic and English.
- Research Call Number
- *OFC 02-8908