Bedouin and 'Abb♯¿sid cultural identities the Arabic Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ story / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan.
| Author/creator | Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1. |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture and civilization in the Middle East |
| Contents | Introduction-- 1. Song Culture, Kit♯¿b al-Agh♯¿n♯± (Book of Songs) and the Love Story of Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ -- 2. On the term ¿¿Udhr♯± and its Symbolic Universe for Understanding Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ -- 3. The Night in the Ghayl--Love, Meaning, and Language -- 4. Umayyad and ¿¿Abb♯¿sid Constructs of Masculinities in the Love Story of Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ -- 5. A Lost 'Bedouin Arcadia'--The Tree Man and the Umayyad Tax Man -- 6. Majn¿±n as the Knight-Errant: Language and the Significance of Errancy (Huy♯¿m) -- 7. ¿¿Abb♯¿sid Culturally Primitivist Readings of Layl♯¿ as Object and Subject -- 8. ¿¿Abb♯¿sid Readings of the ¿¿Udhr♯± Romances: Female Unchastity & the Love Triangle -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography. |
| Abstract | "This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of 'the ideological work' that the Arabic Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ story performed for 'Abb♯¿sid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the 'bedouin cosmos.' The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majn¿±n in the romance of Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ as part of the paradigm shift that occurred in the 'Abb♯¿sid empire after the Graeco-Arabian intellectual revolution. Moreover, this book demonstrates how gender and sexuality are employed in the processes of primitivizing Majn¿±n. As markers of 'strangeness' and 'foreignness' in the 'Abb♯¿sid interrogations of the multiple categories of ethnicity, culture, identity, religion and language present in their cosmopolitan milieus. Such 'cultural work' is performed through the ideological uses of alterity given its mechanisms of distancing (e.g., temporal and spatial) and nearness (e.g. affective). Lastly, the Majn¿±n Layl♯¿ love story demonstrates, in its text and reception, that a Greco-Arabian and Greco-Persian sub-culture thrived in the centers of 'Abb♯¿sid Baghdad that molded and shaped the ways in which this love story was compiled, received and performed. Offering a corrective to the prevailing views expressed in Western scholarly writings on the Greco-Arabian encounter, this book is a major contribution to scholars and students interested in Arabic and comparative literature, Middle East and Gender Studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Bedouin and 'Abb♯¿sid cultural identities 1. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780367333942 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019031601 |
| ISBN | 9781000701203 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9780429319617 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781000699982 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781000700596 (mobi) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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