This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (
adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading
adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of “decontextualisation” and the “untranslatable.” This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching
adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as
One Thousand and One Nights and
The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin’s aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.
Foreword by
Angelika Neuwirth , Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth.- Introduction.- Part I The Hermeneutics of the Qurʾan for the Arts: Key Terms.- Chapter One Ḥusn: The Route to a Conceptual Query.- Chapter Two
Qubḥ and the Way to Hell.- Chapter Three Hell and the Aesthetics of
qubḥ.- Chapter Four Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech.- Part II Popular Literature:
Thousand and One Nights.- Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Reason. - Chapter 6 Of Misplacement of Things, People and Decorum.- Chapter 7 The Transgression of Reason.- Part III Canonical Literature.- Chapter 8 Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful.- Chapter 9 The Littérateurs of Hell and Heaven.- Coda: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of
adab in Modern Scholarship.
Über den Autor
Sarah R. bin Tyeer is a Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK. Her recent publications include essays in the volumes: Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Classical Literary Tradition, The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, and The City in Premodern and Modern Arabic Literature.
Foreword by
Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
67.333 Ebooks in dieser Kategorie
