Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341466
Yasser Elhariry
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341461
Mariam Saeed El Ali
This paper examines the report (khabar) that relates the reasons behind the killing of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661), as transmitted in the famous History of al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923), exploring its historical, poetical, and practical facets. After considering its formal and historiographical structure, the paper analyzes some of the report’s phonetical, lexical, and textual elements, revealing its affective poeticity, or capacity to move readers in various ways. A review of different citations of the report in other Arabic medieval compilations positively sheds light on the practical morality that Muslim compilers were orienting their readers to observe, in their employment of titles, subtitles, explicit evaluations, and contextual arrangements among other constructions. The paper aims to attest to the report’s diverse potentials to aid its readers in ultimately answering the ethical question of “What to do, here and now?”
本文考察了著名的《al史-Ṭabarī》(d. 310/923)中关于杀害al- ibn abyi Ṭālib(公元40/661年)背后原因的报告(khabar)，探讨了其历史、诗歌和实际方面。在考察了报告的形式和历史结构之后，本文分析了报告的一些语音、词汇和文本元素，揭示了它的情感诗意，或者说以各种方式打动读者的能力。对其他阿拉伯中世纪汇编中对该报告的不同引用的回顾，积极地揭示了穆斯林编纂者在使用标题、副标题、明确评价和其他结构中的上下文安排时，引导读者观察的实际道德。本文旨在证明该报告的多样化潜力，以帮助读者最终回答“此时此地该做什么?”
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341460
S. Noble
Both medieval Arab historians and modern Byzantinists have generally ignored the Arabophone cultural life of Antioch during its period under Byzantine rule from 969–1084 CE, preferring to equate Christian rule with Greek culture. Nevertheless, lay intellectuals closely connected to the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch were active in promoting the translation of Greek patristic works into Arabic during this period. This article examines the career of the deacon ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī, whose translations, compilations, and original works evince close familiarity with contemporary intellectual trends in Baghdad and a desire to produce translations of high literary quality. Moreover, in Ibn al-Faḍl’s criticisms of local philosophers who had strayed from Christian dogma, we find further evidence for Byzantine Antioch as a center of Arabic literary and philosophical activity.
中世纪阿拉伯历史学家和现代拜占庭主义者都普遍忽视了安条克在公元969年至公元1084年拜占庭统治期间的阿拉伯文化生活，宁愿将基督教统治与希腊文化等同起来。然而，在这一时期，与安条克的梅尔凯特牧首会有密切联系的非宗教知识分子积极推动将希腊父系作品翻译成阿拉伯语。本文考察了执事Abd Allāh ibn al-Fa的职业生涯ḍl al Anṭākī的翻译、汇编和原创作品表明他非常熟悉巴格达的当代知识潮流，并渴望制作出高文学质量的翻译作品。此外，在Ibn al-Faḍl对偏离基督教教条的当地哲学家的批评，我们发现拜占庭安条克是阿拉伯文学和哲学活动的中心的进一步证据。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341464
Shiri Alon
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341459
Dana Sajdi
This essay explores the relationship between two geographical and literary genres, the diyārāt (Books of Monasteries), which disappeared in the 11th century, and the ziyārāt (shrine pilgrimage guides), which appeared in the 13th century. The relationship is discussed in the context of the transformation of the Syrian sacred landscape, which became thoroughly Islamized through the erection of Islamic public buildings including shrines and mausolea between the 11th–13th centuries. I argue that these two genres had a similar function of spatially inscribing the political order through the invitation to liminal practices in the marginal sites of the monastery and the Islamic shrine/mausoleum. The diyārāt registered the caliphal order and courtly culture, while the ziyārāt served to sanctify the professional scholar whose authority emerged in the post-caliphal sultanic age.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341462
Mohammad Rihan
The monumental multi-volume work Ansāb al-ashrāf, authored by Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī, represents an intellectual edifice recognized by many scholars. However, this paper endeavors to discuss in depth the first volume of it, which al-Balādhurī dedicated to the life of the Prophet Muḥammad, and attempts to show that the underlying reasons for writing another biography of the Prophet—in an age where the Sīrah of the Prophet was well established—were mainly political and personal, linked in particular to the rule of the ʿAbbāsids. It aimed to legitimize ʿAbbāsid rule by systematically and subtly enhancing the role of ʿAbbāsid symbols and ancestry in the formation of early Islam, mainly by linking the eponym of the ʿAbbasid dynasty, al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, to a positive image of the Prophet.
由Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī撰写的多卷巨著Ansāb al-ashrāf代表了许多学者认可的知识大厦。然而，本文试图深入讨论它的第一卷，其中al-Balādhurī致力于先知的生活Muḥammad，并试图表明，写另一个先知的传记的根本原因-在一个时代，先知的宗教建立良好-主要是政治和个人的，特别是与统治有关- Abbāsids。它的目的是通过系统地和巧妙地加强在早期伊斯兰教形成中的象征和祖先的作用，主要是通过将阿巴斯王朝的名字al- al- Abbās b. al- Abd al-Muṭṭalib与先知的正面形象联系起来，从而使Abbāsid统治合法化。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341469
F. Corrao
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341448
Daniel Behar
This essay presents a synoptic view and a critical synthesis of the activity of the Literary Forum at the University of Aleppo (1980–1986) with the aim of putting Aleppo on the map of modern Arabic literature. Serving as an intensive laboratory for literary and meta-literary production under political duress, the Forum is situated at a confluence of global cultural currents as well as at a turning point in the history of the Arabic prose poem. The Forum members devised literary strategies for coping with the deterioration of their city’s cultures while working within both an Arabic tradition of modernity and a global space of intellectual engagement. Well into the twenty-first century, the Forum’s legacies continue to shape the moral stances of poets facing disaster at home and the precariousness of statelessness abroad, and extend into forms of civilian solidarity and collective organizing.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341444
H. Alfaisal
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341452
Drew Paul
In this essay, I use the concept of naql to connect textual transmission and physical movement in two contemporary Arabic fictional works that are structured around questions of the circulation of narratives and bodies: Khālid al-Khamīsī’s Tāksī, a fictional collection of tales about Cairo taxi drivers, and Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frānkishtāyn fī Baghdād, which depicts a monster roaming the streets of Baghdad. I begin with a discussion of naql as both transmission and movement, reading a tension between fixity and change that complicates notions of authenticity and authority in realms such as language, time, and mobility. I then argue that Tāksī uses the mobility of the taxi and the types of transmissions that it receives and produces to reposition cultural and political knowledge gleaned from cabdrivers who move through the gridlocked streets of Cairo. In Saʿdāwī’s novel, the monster’s movements and actions begin as a response to violence but fail to cohere as an alternative to structural corruption, revealing the limits of naql as political critique. I conclude by considering how this reading of naql is reflected in the global circulation of these texts.
在这篇文章中，我使用naql的概念来连接两个当代阿拉伯虚构作品中的文本传播和身体运动，这些作品都围绕着叙述和身体的循环问题:Khālid al- kham sji的Tāksī，一部关于开罗出租车司机的虚构故事集，Aḥmad Sa ā dāwī的Frānkishtāyn f ā Baghdād，描绘了一个在巴格达街头游荡的怪物。我从naql作为传播和运动的讨论开始，阅读了固定与变化之间的紧张关系，这种紧张关系使语言、时间和流动性等领域的真实性和权威概念变得复杂。然后，我认为Tāksī利用出租车的移动性及其接收和产生的传输类型，重新定位从穿梭于开罗拥堵街道的出租车司机那里收集到的文化和政治知识。在萨伊dāwī的小说中，怪物的动作和行动一开始是对暴力的回应，但未能作为结构性腐败的替代方案，这揭示了naql作为政治批判的局限性。最后，我将考虑这种对naql的解读如何反映在这些文本的全球流通中。
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