The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature: Orientology

ISBN-13: 9780367872069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Esad Durakovic

Opis

Through analysing ancient and classical Arabic literature, including the Qur'an, from within the Arabic literary tradition, this book provides an original interpretation of poetics, and of other important aspects of Arab culture.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Poetics of the Arabesque 2 The Deductive Poetics of the Qur’an 3 The Qur’anic Text’s Advance on Tradition 4 The Simile in Old Arabic Poetry 5 The Qur’anic Metaphor 6 Maturation of Post-Qur’anic Poetics and Literary Tradition

O autorze

Esad Durakovic holds a PhD in the field of Arabic literature from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade and is Professor of Arabic Languages and Arabic Literature at the University of Sarajevo. His research interest focus on literary interpretation from Arabic.