The poetics of Islamic legitimacy
Subtitle: myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode
By: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Qasidas -- History and criticism.; Arabic poetry -- 622-750 -- History and criticism.; Arabic poetry -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism.; Politics in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transgression and redemption: cuckolding the King, al-Na⁻bighah al-Dhubyn and the pre-Islamic royal ode; title: Transmission and submission: praising the Prophet, Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr and the Islamic ode; title: Celebration and restoration: praising the caliph, al-Akhṭal and the Umayyad victory ode; title: Supplication and negotiation: the client outraged, al-Akhṭal and the supplicatory ode; title: Political dominion as sexual domination, Ab⁻u al-ʻAt⁻ahiyah, Ab⁻u Tamm⁻am, and the poetics of power; title: The poetics of political allegiance, praise and blame in three odes by al-Mutanabb⁻i; title: 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.