Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341500
Gowaart Van Den Bossche
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341490
Charis Olszok
Abstract Contributing to the fields of eco- and petro-criticism, this article argues for significant connections in the Arabic novel between fantastical and uncanny aesthetics, on the one hand, and ecological awareness and energy anxiety on the other. Moving from nation-based comparisons, in recognition of how energy ecologies similarly traverse sovereign borders, it does so through Iraqi author Fāḍil al-ʿAzzāwī’s Ākhir al-malāʾikah (1992) and the Palestinian Imīl Ḥabībī’s Sarāyā, bint al-ghūl (1991). Set at either end of the Kirkuk-Haifa oil pipeline, in their authors’ home cities, these novels were completed within a few weeks of one another, during the first months of the petroleum-driven Gulf War (1990–1991), to which they allude. Through phantoms, jinn, angels, and zombies, they dramatize the emotional, environmental, and social disturbances of petro-modernity.
本文从生态批评和石油批评的角度出发，论证了阿拉伯小说中奇幻美学和恐怖美学与生态意识和能量焦虑之间的重要联系。从以国家为基础的比较出发，认识到能源生态是如何类似地跨越主权边界的，它通过伊拉克作者Fāḍil al- ul - Azzāwī的Ākhir al- malal - ul - ikah(1992)和巴勒斯坦作者im l Ḥabībī的Sarāyā， bint al-ghūl(1991)来实现这一点。这些小说以基尔库克-海法石油管道的两端为背景，在作者的家乡城市，在几个星期内完成，在石油驱动的海湾战争(1990-1991)的头几个月里，他们暗示了这一点。通过幽灵、精灵、天使和僵尸，他们戏剧性地表现了石油现代性的情感、环境和社会动荡。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341486
Spencer Scoville
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341475
A. Mazor
This article considers biographical material on Jewish converts authored by Muslim historians, primarily in Mamluk Egypt and Syria from the 13th to 15th centuries, enumerating and analyzing its recurring themes. Among its key findings is that the motifs found in this material are consonant with Islamic theological perceptions of other faith-based groups, especially the Jews. These themes also reflect their writers’ notion of exemplary history. Beyond this, I suggest that the main objective behind the texts under review is the affirmation of basic principles espoused in the Qurʾān, ḥadīth, and the sīrah for the purpose of demonstrating the veracity and superiority of the Muslim faith.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341482
T. Pepe
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341472
E. Naaman
One of the bitterest plagiarism controversies recorded in the medieval Arabic sources concerned the poet al-Sarī l-Raffāʾ and the two poets known as the Khālidī brothers. Based on the surviving evidence, this article examines closely the dispute between both parties in Iraq and Syria of the fourth/tenth century and the various ways in which it engaged others, including very prominent figures of the Abbasid era. Attention is paid to the development of the dispute and to the steps taken by each side to prevail over the other. The present article shows how the victory of the Khālidī brothers was structurally facilitated by the absence of formal legal mechanisms and procedures to address plagiarism allegations in the Abbasid period.
中世纪阿拉伯文献中记载的最激烈的剽窃争议之一涉及诗人al- sari - raffal - raffal -和两位诗人Khālidī兄弟。根据现存的证据，本文仔细研究了4 / 10世纪伊拉克和叙利亚双方之间的争端，以及它与他人(包括阿巴斯王朝时期的杰出人物)之间的各种方式。人们注意到争端的发展和每一方为战胜对方所采取的步骤。本文展示了在阿巴斯王朝时期，由于缺乏解决剽窃指控的正式法律机制和程序，Khālidī兄弟的胜利在结构上是如何得到促进的。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341471
Tahera Qutbuddin, Aziz Qutbuddin
The 177-verse Arabic Poem of the Intellect (Qaṣīdat al-ʿAql) composed by the Indian Fatimid-Ṭayyibī Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (d. 1385/1965) breaks new ground in substance and form. In form, the poem creatively amalgamates the genres of qaṣīdah (poem), risālah (treatise), and waṣiyyah (testament) to produce an eloquent and innovative hybrid text. In content, it uniquely combines a philosophical exposition on Islamic theology and ethics with a road map to living a Pure Life. After an opening frame that provides a philosophical foundation, the poem’s three large thematic sections draw on the Qurʾan, the Prophet’s Hadith, and the sermons of Imam ʿAlī to describe principles of belief and approach, articles of character and deeds, and the grounding of both—abstract philosophy and concrete instructions—in love for and allegiance to the divine guides, the Imams and Dāʿīs, who are “God’s rope.” It has a gentle tone, preaching harmony between all people on earth, tranquility in one’s life, cheerfulness and positivity, and an atmosphere of love and caring. The closing section brings the poet directly into the frame of reference, stating that he, as the incumbent Dāʿī, is himself the manifestation of God’s rope in the current time, and those who follow his guidance will return to Paradise. The present article provides a window into Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin’s remarkable poem, translating and analyzing it against the backdrop of Fatimid and Ṭayyibī theological works and, briefly, the colonial and post-colonial fabric of early 20th century India, to explore a significant and largely unknown chapter of Arabic poetry.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341483
M. Salama
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341477
Anouar El Younssi
This article discusses the politics of form in ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī’s 1989 ʾAwrāq: sīrat Idrīs al-dhihniyyah (Papers: Idrīs’s Intellectual Biography), an important contribution to Moroccan experimental literature in the postcolonial era. Together with Muḥammad Barrādah’s 1987 novel Luʿbat al-nisyān (The Game of Forgetting, 1996), Awrāq consolidated the experimental turn in the Moroccan literary scene, aiding thereby its ascent to the mainstream. ʾAwrāq is a two-layered text, presenting the reader with, first, a stack of papers of various sorts belonging to the diseased protagonist Idrīs, and second, the commentaries on this archive by the narrator and Shuʿayb. The book constantly oscillates between these two layers, attempting in the process to shake the dominant realist form and its underlying European point of reference. ʾAwrāq’s search for its best form parallels Idrīs’s quest to restore, or be reconciled to, his identity in the context of France and Europe’s colonial project and its legacy. The text’s experimentalism is thus strategically harnessed to wrestle, within the diegesis, with various political and sociocultural challenges facing Morocco, and the Arab/Arabo-Amazigh world more broadly, in the postcolonial era—including the colossal task of reconciling the Islamic heritage (al-turāth) with hegemonic Western discourses of modernity.
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