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000437036 1001_ $$aAli, Samer M.
000437036 24510 $$aArabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages :$$bpoetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past /$$cSamer M. Ali.
000437036 260__ $$aNotre Dame, Ind. :$$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$$cc2010.
000437036 300__ $$axi, 294 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000437036 440_0 $$aPoetics of orality and literacy.
000437036 500__ $$aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University.
000437036 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437036 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buḥturī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion.
000437036 520__ $$aArabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers, In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on written sources of the tradition.
000437036 520__ $$aThat emphasis, argues Samer Ali, has neglected the interplay of oral and written, as well as of religious and secular knowledge in salon society, and the surprising ways in which these seemingly discrete categories blurred in the lived experience of participants. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250, and using methods from European medieval studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology, Ali interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. He identifies salons not only as sites for socializing and educating, but as loci for performing literature and oral history; for creating and transmitting cultural identity; and for continually reinterpreting the past. A fascinating recovery of a key element of humanistic culture, Ali's work will encourage a recasting of our understanding of verbal art, cultural memory, and daily life in medieval Arab culture.
000437036 650_0 $$aArabic poetry$$y750-1258$$xHistory and criticism.
000437036 650_0 $$aSalons$$zIslamic Empire.
000437036 650_0 $$aOral tradition$$zIslamic Empire.
000437036 651_0 $$aIslamic Empire$$xIntellectual life.
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