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The object of this collection of essays is to present various approaches to the evolution of Arabic prose in the Abbasid age when the art of writing reached the climax of artificiality under the influence of several cultural factors. While poetry always had the virtue of being the essence of verbal arts among Arabs, prose, for a long time, maintained its role as a major vehicle for transmitting information, presenting historical or scientific material or elaborating theological issues. However, as time passed during the Abbasid age, with all the social and cultural changes it involved, prose was gaining merits similar to those that poetry manipulated in Arabic literature for centuries. The book focuses on types of prose in Arabic literature which evidently demonstrate certain artistic features that can be classified within the framework of rhetoric. This applies to both form and theme. --- Contents: Introduction; Ibn al-Muqaffa's Kalila wa-Dimna and Boccaccio's On Poetry: A Hybrid Poetics and Avant-Garde Hermeneutics / Marianne Marroum; Short Stories in Classical Arabic Literature: The Case of Khalid and Umm Salama / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila; Literary Criticism as Literature / Geert Jan van Gelder; Love in the Time of Pilgrimage or A Lost Maqama of Ibn Durayd? / Philip F. Kennedy; Tawqi (Apostille): Royal Brevity in the Pre-Modern Islamic Appeals Court / Beatrice Gruendler; The Aesthetics of Pure Formalism: A Letter of Qabus b. Vushmgir / Everett K. Rowson; Rhetorical Values in Buyid Persia According to Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani / Vahid Behmardi; The Art of Entertainment: Forty Nights with Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi / Lale Behzadi; The Art of the Muqaddima in the Works of Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi / Bilal Orfali; The Double Entendre (tawriya) as a Hermeneutical Stratagem: A Forensic Maqama by Abu Muhammad al-Qasim b. 'Ali al-Hariri / Angelika Neuwirth
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- Title: The Weaving of Words: Approaches to Classical Arabic Prose (Beiruter Texte Und Studien)
- Author : Lale Behzadi, Vahid Behmardi
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