Research Catalog

Title

The Qurʼan and adab : the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam / edited by Nuha Alshaar.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alshaar, Nuha
• Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Description

xxvi, 636 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Qur'anic studies series ; 16

Uniform Title

Qur'anic studies series ; 16.

Alternative Title

Shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam

Subject

• Qurʼan > Influence > Congresses
• Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses
• Qurʼan > In literature
• Qurʼan > Language, style
• Qurʼan and literature
• Qurʼan as literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 565 - 606) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Relation of Adab to the Qur'an: Conceptual and Historical Framework / Nuha Alshaar -- Section I. The Qur'an and Classical Arabic Poetry: Intertextuality and Sensibilities -- 2. The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing a Cultural Shift in Arab Late Antiquity/ Angelika Neuwirth -- 3. The Qur'an and the Character of Pre-Islamic Poetry: The Dāliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshalī (d. 600 CE)/ Ghassan El-Massri -- 4. Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an/ Beatrice Gruendler -- Section II. The Qur'an in Literary Criticism -- 5. The Qur'an in Kitāb al-Badī' by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)/ Geert Jan van Gelder -- 6. 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'ālibī's (d. 429/1030) Kitāb al-Iqtibās min al-Qur'ān al-Karīm/ Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz -- Section III. The Qur'an as a Moral, Literary and Aesthetic Model -- 7. The Place of the Qur'an in 'The Sermons and Exhortations' of Abū 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)/ Andrew Rippin -- 8. Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abū'l-'Alā' al-Ma'arrī's (d. 449/1058) al-Fucūl wa'l-Ghāyāt and Its Reception/ Devin Stewart -- 9. The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: $ikāyat Abī'l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī by Abū'l-Mumahhar al-Azdī (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)/ Sarah R. bin Tyeer -- Part IV. Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies -- 10. Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khumba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions/ Tahera Qutbuddin -- 11. The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-$amīd b. Yaḥya al-Kātib (d. 132/750)/ Wadad al-Qadi -- 12. The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farīd by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940)/ Nuha Alshaar -- 13. Wisdom and Justice: The Reception of the Qur'an in Some Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes/ Louise Marlow -- 14. Solomon's Ring in the Arabic Literary Imaginary/ Wen-chin Ouyang -- Part V. The Qur'an in Sufi Literature -- 15. Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abū Sa'īd al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899)/ Nada Saab -- 16. Ibn 'Arabī (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems/ Denis McAuley -- 17. 'Serving from Afar': Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an/ Steffen Stelzer.

Call Number

JFD 17-1972

ISBN

• 9780198787181
• 0198787189

OCLC

970393251

Title

The Qurʼan and adab : the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam / edited by Nuha Alshaar.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Qur'anic studies series ; 16

Qur'anic studies series ; 16.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565 - 606) and index.

Added Author

Alshaar, Nuha, editor.

Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-1972