The poetics of Islamic legitimacy myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.

Author/creator Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 383 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents Transgression and redemption: cuckolding the King, al-Na?bighah al-Dhubyn and the pre-Islamic royal ode -- Transmission and submission: praising the Prophet, Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr and the Islamic ode -- Celebration and restoration: praising the caliph, al-Akhṭal and the Umayyad victory ode -- Supplication and negotiation: the client outraged, al-Akhṭal and the supplicatory ode -- Political dominion as sexual domination, Ab?u al-ʻAt?ahiyah, Ab?u Tamm?am, and the poetics of power -- The poetics of political allegiance, praise and blame in three odes by al-Mutanabb?i -- The poetics of ceremony and the competition for legitimacy, al-Muhannad al-Baghd?ad?i, Muḥammad ibn Shukhayṣ, Ibn Darra?j al-Qasall?i, and the Andalusian ode.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001008295
ISBN0253341191 (alk. paper)
ISBN0253215366 (pbk.)

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