Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section ("nasib") of the classic Arab code, or "qusidah." In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in...
Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comp...
Now in Paperback Muhammad and the Golden Bough Reconstructing Arabic Myth Jaroslav Stetkevych
Connects pre-Islamic Arabian myth to world mythic traditions.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
"Stetkevych succeeds brilliantly in reconstructing the myth of the destruction of the Thamud, an ancient people of north Arabia.... This book will add a new dimension to the study of Near Eastern and Mediterranean myth and legend." Choice
"Stetkevych s critical and wide-ranging perspective reveals a wealth of insights. This book is must reading for everyone in the...
Now in Paperback Muhammad and the Golden Bough Reconstructing Arabic Myth Jaroslav Stetkevych
The Modern Arabic Literary Language is a thoughtful examination of the changes that the Arabic language has undergone in its transition from its roots in classical Arabic to a language able to meet the demands of twentieth-century life.
In this volume a respected and masterful scholar of the Arabic language Jaroslav Stetkevych notes the ways that new words have been incorporated into the language, ranging from deriving new terms from existing roots (for example, the word for "newspaper" derives from the word meaning "sheet to write on") to downright assimilation of foreign...
The Modern Arabic Literary Language is a thoughtful examination of the changes that the Arabic language has undergone in its transition from...
Among the world s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current from the pre-Islamic, oral tradition, dating as far back as the fifth century CE, through the coming of Islam in the seventh century and the Umayyad and 'Abbasid caliphates, ultimately serving as a classical substrate for the radical Modernism of the twentieth century. This striking continuity of theme and motif of the pursuer the hunter, companions, his steed, hounds, or falcon and the pursued, whether the prey be oryx, onager, gazelle, hare,...
Among the world s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current fr...
