Books by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Islam and New Directions in World Literature, 2022
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-islam-and-new-directions-in-world-literature.html
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Islam and New Directions in World Literature brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature
Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes
Understands Islam as a driving creative force and situates its contribution in the development, past and present, of world imaginaries
Covers a variety of global locations to discuss the Islamicate as developed in Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Middle-Eastern, African, Japanese, Chinese and Philippine literatures
Examines a diversity of genres including fiction and poetry, but also philosophy, oral literature and manga
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts.
Exploring Islam’s presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
Foreword - Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3)
Tropes of Orientalism
2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)
3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written
4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)
5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)
6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir
Circulation,Translation, Rereading
7. Friedrich Rückert’s Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur’ân - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cüneyd Yıldırım (Münster Universität)
8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)
9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Secular/Non-Secular
10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC)
11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)
12. Indonesia’s "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)
The Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World series will put forward a critical body of fi r... more The Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World series will put forward a critical body of fi rst rate scholarship on the literary and cultural production of the Islamic world from the vantage point of contemporary theoretical and hermeneutic perspectives, effectively bringing the study of Islamic literatures and cultures to the wider attention of scholars and students of world literatures and cultures without the prejudices and drawbacks of outmoded perspectives.
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Volumes by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Islam and New Directions in World Literature, 2022
This first chapter delineates the critical objectives of the volume. The chapter offers a critiqu... more This first chapter delineates the critical objectives of the volume. The chapter offers a critique of the default frameworks on which the field of World Literature is based - secularism, national borders, the end of colonisation and the process of decolonisation and cosmopolitanism - and the assumptions it carries, including the presumption that the global participants have equal access to world literatures and languages and are equal beneficiaries of the field of World Literature and equal players in its theorization. The other side of the coin is that Islamic/ate literatures have been worldly, multilingual, and polycentric for centuries before the Goethean originary moment and the coining of the term. The chapter offers an extensive critical review of the field from the 1990s to the present (Brouillette, Casanova, Cheah, Damrosch, Moretti, Mufti, Orsini). Contrary to the concept of distant reading, we argue that texts must be read affiliatively, in connection with their own Islamic/ate Pre-texts (namely Qur’an and Traditions) and Con(-)texts. The ramifications of the absence of affiliative reading are not only on the theoretical level but also, predictably, on the hermeneutical level, with a lack of proper tools undermining access to the literatures of the Islamic/ate worlds. This results in a treatment of Islamicate literatures as objects of a field rather than engaging with them as agents in a field.
"Though there have been many studies on the Qur'an's importance in tafsir (Qur'anic commentary), ... more "Though there have been many studies on the Qur'an's importance in tafsir (Qur'anic commentary), there are comparatively few which look at the impact of the Qur'an on other forms of literature. The Qur'an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam bridges the gap in the scholarship by placing the Qur'an in its broader cultural and literary contexts. It explores the Qur'an's relation to classical literary traditions (adab) from pre-Islamic times until the fifteenth century CE, focusing on the various ways in which the classical literati (udaba) engaged with the Qur'anic text, linguistically, conceptually, structurally, and aesthetically, to create works that combined the sacred with the profane, thereby blurring the boundaries between formal tafsir and adab.
Through a detailed introduction and a series of case studies, the volume rethinks the concept of adab and the relation of scripture to humanistic traditions in classical Islam and questions the general classification of adab as belles-lettres. It examines the religious aesthetic found in different types of adab works--poetry, literary criticism, epistles, oratory traditions, anthologies, "mirrors for princes," folklore, and mystical/Sufi literature. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, the collection investigate the intertextuality between pre-lslamic poetry and the Qur'an, and the innumerable approaches to the Qur'an by classical authors. It discusses the various citation techniques employed in the udaba's borrowing of Qur'anic language, concepts, and stories. The chapters explain how the choice of these techniques was determined by the literary conventions of the particular genres and contexts within which the udaba were working, as well as by their authorial intention, theological, and ideological outlooks. They also highlight the link between the functions ascribed to Qur'anic quotations in a specific text and the need to convey a particular message to specific audiences."
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 Daliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshali (d. 600 CE)
Ghassan el Masri
4 Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an
Beatrice Gruendler
Section II: The Qur'an in Literary Criticism
5 The Qur'an in Kitab al-Badi'by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)
Geert Jan van Gelder
6 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'alibi's (d. 429/1030) Kitab al-Iqtibas min al-Qur'an al-karim
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 Abu 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)
Andrew Rippin
8 Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abu'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri's (d. 449/1058) al-Fusul wa'l-Ghayat and Its Reception
Devin Stewart
9 The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: Hikayat Abi'l-Qasim al-Baghdadi by Abu'l-Mutahhar al-Azdi (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)
Sarah R. bin Tyeer
Section IV: Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies
10 Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khutba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions
Tahera Qutbuddin
11 The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-Hamid b. Yahya al-Katib (d. 132/750)
Wad?d al-Q???
12 The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farid by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalus? (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
Section V: The Qur'an in Sufi Literature
15 Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz (d. 286/899)
Nada Saab
16 Ibn 'Arabi (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems
Denis McAuley
17 'Serving from Afar': Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an
Steffen Stelzer
Bibliography
Index of Qur'anic Citations
General Index
Articles by Sarah R bin Tyeer
المركز:مجلة الدراسات العربية BRILL, 2022
الغيطانيّ – التناص – التوليد – الوعي التار يخيّ – الوعي المعرفيّ
الكلمات المفتاحيّة
Papers by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Post-Eurocentric poetics: new approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature
The workshop engages with a range of approaches in Arabic, Turkish and Persian cultures and were ... more The workshop engages with a range of approaches in Arabic, Turkish and Persian cultures and were overlooked or misunderstood under a long-established Eurocentric hegemony. It encourages scholars to reconstruct the concepts of 'artistic' or 'poetic' language, by engaging with literary concepts that have been marginalized due to their distance from the European literary tradition. The workshop investigates how the three cultures answered the influential question of Roman Jakobson: "poetics deals primarily with the question, what makes a verbal message a work of art?"
Reviews by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Speculum, 2023
Reverting to Old English, the closing chapter applies the notion of translation effects to Beowul... more Reverting to Old English, the closing chapter applies the notion of translation effects to Beowulf, arguing that inherited narratives, particularly in the so-called digressions, contribute decisively to the poem's preoccupation with the theme of the fragility of human social bonds. For Hurley, "the translation effects in Beowulf create a community of listeners or readers that understand more than the poem's characters can, and so perceive the potential for the endurance of community but also its possible loss" (18). Hurley stretches the meaning of translation effects here and could perhaps have done more to justify the term's use in this extended way (and possibly in the third and fourth chapters also), but she presents an incisive reading of Beowulf that establishes the essential role of its community-creating strategies. Translation Effects is not without some scholarly missteps-there is vagueness concerning Abbo of Fleury's version of the Edmund story, for example, including the assertion that Abbo "presumably" wrote in Latin (55, 63), and Hurley misunderstands Bede's claim that the Roman missionaries were worthier heralds [digniores praecones] of the truth of Christianity than the Britons, taking him to mean instead that the English were a worthier people [digniore gens [?]] (146)-but this book is to be welcomed as offering a new angle on translation in medieval England, one that will be of benefit to future scholarship. The key idea of translation effects is original and certainly valuable, and Hurley, by making use of it in her textual analyses, presents interesting readings of a selection of relevant writings.
Journal of Arabic Literature, 2019
Book Review of The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose in the Journal of Arabic L... more Book Review of The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose in the Journal of Arabic Literature, volume 50:2, (2019)
Reviews and Essays by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Marginalia (Los Angeles Review of Books), 2018
Review essay exploring the relationship -- sometimes a fraught one -- between Islam and creative ... more Review essay exploring the relationship -- sometimes a fraught one -- between Islam and creative expression. Books reviewed: Sarah R. bin Tyeer, The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), and Nuha Alshaar, ed., The Qur’an and Adab (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Review published at this link: https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/like-a-bride-the-quran/
Conferences by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism, Columbia University, Dec 14 -16
Paper presented at the Foundations and Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory, Dec 14-17 2021... more Paper presented at the Foundations and Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory, Dec 14-17 2021, Columbia University.
by CHIARA FONTANA, Sarah R bin Tyeer, Lara Harb, Nathaniel A Miller, Johannes Stephan, Gretchen Head, Matthew L Keegan, Nino Dolidze, Haifa Saud Alfaisal, Emad Abdul Latif د. عماد عبد اللطيف, and Cristina Dozio Program for the Workshop “Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon” June 17-19, 2019 Paris Columbia Global Center, Reid Hall, 2019
Conference Program 17-19 June 2019
Chapters in edited volumes by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Islam and New Directions in World Literature, 2022
This first chapter delineates the critical objectives of the volume. The chapter offers a critiqu... more This first chapter delineates the critical objectives of the volume. The chapter offers a critique of the default frameworks on which the field of World Literature is based - secularism, national borders, the end of colonisation and the process of decolonisation and cosmopolitanism - and the assumptions it carries, including the presumption that the global participants have equal access to world literatures and languages and are equal beneficiaries of the field of World Literature and equal players in its theorization. The other side of the coin is that Islamic/ate literatures have been worldly, multilingual, and polycentric for centuries before the Goethean originary moment and the coining of the term. The chapter offers an extensive critical review of the field from the 1990s to the present (Brouillette, Casanova, Cheah, Damrosch, Moretti, Mufti, Orsini). Contrary to the concept of distant reading, we argue that texts must be read affiliatively, in connection with their own Islamic/ate Pre-texts (namely Qur’an and Traditions) and Con(-)texts. The ramifications of the absence of affiliative reading are not only on the theoretical level but also, predictably, on the hermeneutical level, with a lack of proper tools undermining access to the literatures of the Islamic/ate worlds. This results in a treatment of Islamicate literatures as objects of a field rather than engaging with them as agents in a field.
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Books by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Islam and New Directions in World Literature brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature
Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes
Understands Islam as a driving creative force and situates its contribution in the development, past and present, of world imaginaries
Covers a variety of global locations to discuss the Islamicate as developed in Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Middle-Eastern, African, Japanese, Chinese and Philippine literatures
Examines a diversity of genres including fiction and poetry, but also philosophy, oral literature and manga
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts.
Exploring Islam’s presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
Foreword - Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3)
Tropes of Orientalism
2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)
3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written
4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)
5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)
6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir
Circulation,Translation, Rereading
7. Friedrich Rückert’s Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur’ân - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cüneyd Yıldırım (Münster Universität)
8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)
9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Secular/Non-Secular
10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC)
11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)
12. Indonesia’s "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Volumes by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Through a detailed introduction and a series of case studies, the volume rethinks the concept of adab and the relation of scripture to humanistic traditions in classical Islam and questions the general classification of adab as belles-lettres. It examines the religious aesthetic found in different types of adab works--poetry, literary criticism, epistles, oratory traditions, anthologies, "mirrors for princes," folklore, and mystical/Sufi literature. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, the collection investigate the intertextuality between pre-lslamic poetry and the Qur'an, and the innumerable approaches to the Qur'an by classical authors. It discusses the various citation techniques employed in the udaba's borrowing of Qur'anic language, concepts, and stories. The chapters explain how the choice of these techniques was determined by the literary conventions of the particular genres and contexts within which the udaba were working, as well as by their authorial intention, theological, and ideological outlooks. They also highlight the link between the functions ascribed to Qur'anic quotations in a specific text and the need to convey a particular message to specific audiences."
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 Daliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshali (d. 600 CE)
Ghassan el Masri
4 Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an
Beatrice Gruendler
Section II: The Qur'an in Literary Criticism
5 The Qur'an in Kitab al-Badi'by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)
Geert Jan van Gelder
6 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'alibi's (d. 429/1030) Kitab al-Iqtibas min al-Qur'an al-karim
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 Abu 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)
Andrew Rippin
8 Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abu'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri's (d. 449/1058) al-Fusul wa'l-Ghayat and Its Reception
Devin Stewart
9 The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: Hikayat Abi'l-Qasim al-Baghdadi by Abu'l-Mutahhar al-Azdi (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)
Sarah R. bin Tyeer
Section IV: Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies
10 Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khutba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions
Tahera Qutbuddin
11 The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-Hamid b. Yahya al-Katib (d. 132/750)
Wad?d al-Q???
12 The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farid by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalus? (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
Section V: The Qur'an in Sufi Literature
15 Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz (d. 286/899)
Nada Saab
16 Ibn 'Arabi (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems
Denis McAuley
17 'Serving from Afar': Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an
Steffen Stelzer
Bibliography
Index of Qur'anic Citations
General Index
Articles by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Papers by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Reviews by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Reviews and Essays by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Review published at this link: https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/like-a-bride-the-quran/
Conferences by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Chapters in edited volumes by Sarah R bin Tyeer
Islam and New Directions in World Literature brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature
Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes
Understands Islam as a driving creative force and situates its contribution in the development, past and present, of world imaginaries
Covers a variety of global locations to discuss the Islamicate as developed in Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Middle-Eastern, African, Japanese, Chinese and Philippine literatures
Examines a diversity of genres including fiction and poetry, but also philosophy, oral literature and manga
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts.
Exploring Islam’s presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
Foreword - Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3)
Tropes of Orientalism
2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)
3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written
4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)
5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)
6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir
Circulation,Translation, Rereading
7. Friedrich Rückert’s Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur’ân - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cüneyd Yıldırım (Münster Universität)
8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)
9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Secular/Non-Secular
10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC)
11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)
12. Indonesia’s "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)
Through a detailed introduction and a series of case studies, the volume rethinks the concept of adab and the relation of scripture to humanistic traditions in classical Islam and questions the general classification of adab as belles-lettres. It examines the religious aesthetic found in different types of adab works--poetry, literary criticism, epistles, oratory traditions, anthologies, "mirrors for princes," folklore, and mystical/Sufi literature. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, the collection investigate the intertextuality between pre-lslamic poetry and the Qur'an, and the innumerable approaches to the Qur'an by classical authors. It discusses the various citation techniques employed in the udaba's borrowing of Qur'anic language, concepts, and stories. The chapters explain how the choice of these techniques was determined by the literary conventions of the particular genres and contexts within which the udaba were working, as well as by their authorial intention, theological, and ideological outlooks. They also highlight the link between the functions ascribed to Qur'anic quotations in a specific text and the need to convey a particular message to specific audiences."
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 Daliyya of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshali (d. 600 CE)
Ghassan el Masri
4 Abbasid Poets and the Qur'an
Beatrice Gruendler
Section II: The Qur'an in Literary Criticism
5 The Qur'an in Kitab al-Badi'by Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908)
Geert Jan van Gelder
6 'I See a Distant Fire': Tha'alibi's (d. 429/1030) Kitab al-Iqtibas min al-Qur'an al-karim
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 Abu 'Ubayd (d. 224/838)
Andrew Rippin
8 Rhythmical Anxiety: Notes on Abu'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri's (d. 449/1058) al-Fusul wa'l-Ghayat and Its Reception
Devin Stewart
9 The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Adab: Hikayat Abi'l-Qasim al-Baghdadi by Abu'l-Mutahhar al-Azdi (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century)
Sarah R. bin Tyeer
Section IV: Approaches to the Qur'an in Adab: Five Case Studies
10 Qur'an Citation in Early Arabic Oration (Khutba): Mnemonic, Liturgical and Testimonial Functions
Tahera Qutbuddin
11 The Impact of the Qur'an on the Epistolography of 'Abd al-Hamid b. Yahya al-Katib (d. 132/750)
Wad?d al-Q???
12 The Qur'an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-'Iqd al-Farid by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih al-Andalus? (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
Section V: The Qur'an in Sufi Literature
15 Sufi Negotiation of the Qur'anic Text and its Prophetic Stories in the Literature of Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz (d. 286/899)
Nada Saab
16 Ibn 'Arabi (d. 637/1240) and the Qur'an: A Series of Poems
Denis McAuley
17 'Serving from Afar': Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 672/1273) on the Adab of Interpreting the Qur'an
Steffen Stelzer
Bibliography
Index of Qur'anic Citations
General Index
Review published at this link: https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/like-a-bride-the-quran/