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The poet of the medieval Muslim world who is the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily
The poet of the medieval Muslim world who is the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily
Über den Autor
William Granara is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He was awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his monograph Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
The Kalbids of Sicily
Muslim Sicily Unraveling
Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet
Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier
The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture
Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics
Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’
2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART
Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection
Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father
Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter
In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest
3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING
Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland
The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya
The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya
On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions
4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE
The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville
Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View
Elegy to a Father
Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric
Court Poet as Court Functionary
The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest
Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor
5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE
Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids
The Battle of al-Zallaqa
The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville
6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING
Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad
Return to Mahdia
Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim
Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest
Ode to a Falling Homeland
Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife
7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA
At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim
Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace
Breaking Ranks in Gabes
From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East
Victory at al-Dimas
The Almohads on the Horizon
8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT
Retreat into Devotional Verse
Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo
9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT
Losing Sight
Sicily Forever on the Mind
Elegy to a Nephew and Family History
Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland
Death and Burial
Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
The Kalbids of Sicily
Muslim Sicily Unraveling
Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet
Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier
The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture
Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics
Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’
2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART
Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection
Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father
Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter
In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest
3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING
Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland
The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya
The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya
On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions
4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE
The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville
Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View
Elegy to a Father
Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric
Court Poet as Court Functionary
The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest
Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor
5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE
Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids
The Battle of al-Zallaqa
The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville
6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING
Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad
Return to Mahdia
Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim
Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest
Ode to a Falling Homeland
Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife
7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA
At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim
Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace
Breaking Ranks in Gabes
From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East
Victory at al-Dimas
The Almohads on the Horizon
8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT
Retreat into Devotional Verse
Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo
9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT
Losing Sight
Sicily Forever on the Mind
Elegy to a Nephew and Family History
Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland
Death and Burial
Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9781786078469 |
ISBN-10: | 1786078465 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Granara, William |
Hersteller: | Oneworld Publications |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 141 x 222 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | William Granara |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,276 kg |
Über den Autor
William Granara is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He was awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his monograph Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
The Kalbids of Sicily
Muslim Sicily Unraveling
Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet
Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier
The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture
Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics
Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’
2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART
Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection
Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father
Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter
In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest
3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING
Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland
The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya
The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya
On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions
4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE
The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville
Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View
Elegy to a Father
Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric
Court Poet as Court Functionary
The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest
Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor
5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE
Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids
The Battle of al-Zallaqa
The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville
6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING
Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad
Return to Mahdia
Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim
Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest
Ode to a Falling Homeland
Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife
7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA
At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim
Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace
Breaking Ranks in Gabes
From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East
Victory at al-Dimas
The Almohads on the Horizon
8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT
Retreat into Devotional Verse
Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo
9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT
Losing Sight
Sicily Forever on the Mind
Elegy to a Nephew and Family History
Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland
Death and Burial
Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
The Kalbids of Sicily
Muslim Sicily Unraveling
Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet
Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier
The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture
Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics
Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’
2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART
Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection
Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father
Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter
In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest
3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING
Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland
The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya
The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya
On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions
4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE
The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville
Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View
Elegy to a Father
Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric
Court Poet as Court Functionary
The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest
Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor
5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE
Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids
The Battle of al-Zallaqa
The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville
6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING
Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad
Return to Mahdia
Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim
Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest
Ode to a Falling Homeland
Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife
7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA
At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim
Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace
Breaking Ranks in Gabes
From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East
Victory at al-Dimas
The Almohads on the Horizon
8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT
Retreat into Devotional Verse
Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo
9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT
Losing Sight
Sicily Forever on the Mind
Elegy to a Nephew and Family History
Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland
Death and Burial
Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9781786078469 |
ISBN-10: | 1786078465 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Granara, William |
Hersteller: | Oneworld Publications |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 141 x 222 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | William Granara |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,276 kg |
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