Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Bin Tyeer, Sarah R.

Palgrave Macmillan

09/2016

306

Dura

Inglês

9781137599889

15 a 20 dias


Versão ebook 80,92 €

This book approaches the Qur'an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab).
Contents Acknowledgements Foreword INTRODUCTION Part I The Hermeneutics of the Qur'an for the Arts: Key Terms Chapter 1 Husn: The Route to a Conceptual Query Chapter 2 Qubh and the Way to Hell Chapter 3 Hell and the Aesthetics of qubh Chapter 4 Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech Part II Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Reason Chapter 6 Of Misplacement of Things, People and Decorum Chapter 7 The Transgression of Reason Part III Canonical Literature Chapter 8 Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful Chapter 9 The Litterateurs of Hell and Heaven Coda: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship
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