Arabic Poetics - Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature

Reveals how an aesthetic of wonder underlay the classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Wonder: a new paradigm; 2. Wonder in Aristotelian Arabic poetics; 3. Discovery in Bay¿n; 4. Metaphor and the aesthetics of the sign; 5. Näm, wonder, and the inimitability of the Quran; Epilogue. Fä¿¿a, bal¿gha, and poetic beauty.

About the author

Lara Harb is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University where she specializes in classical Arabic literary theory, and Arabic conceptions of the 'literary'. She is the author of articles in journals including Journal of American Oriental Society and Middle Eastern Literatures. Her Ph.D. was awarded the S. A. Bonebakker Prize for the best thesis in Classical Arabic Literature in 2014.

Summary

Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Harb, Lara (Princeton University Harb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108490214
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49021-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, HISTORY / Middle East / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Social & cultural history, History - General History, Arabic, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval