Like Joseph in beauty : Yemeni vernacular poetry and Arab-Jewish symbiosis /

Like Joseph in beauty : Yemeni vernacular poetry and Arab-Jewish symbiosis /

Like Joseph in Beauty traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called 'Humayni poetry'. From Muslim mystical circles, the courts of aristocrats in Highland Yemen, and kabbalist circles of Yemenite Jews, Humayni poetry distinguishes itself with lyricism, musicality, and eroticism. It a...

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Main Author: Wagner, Mark S.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 33.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004223042.

Subjects:

Bruiloftsliederen.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Lyrik.
Religiöse Lyrik.
Arabic poetry > Yemen (Republic) > History and criticism.
Jemen.
Juden.
Palestina.

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Call Number: PJ8007.2 .W34 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One. Defining the Ḥumaynī poem /
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  • Chapter Two. Dialect in Ḥumaynī poetry /
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  • Chapter Three. A golden age of Ḥumaynī poetry /
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  • Chapter Four. The status of Ḥumaynī poetry /
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  • Chapter Five. R. Sālim Al-Shabazī and the Shabaziyyāt /
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  • Chapter Six. Shabazian eroticism, Kabbalah and Dor deʿAh /
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  • Chapter Seven. Ḥumaynī poetry and revolution in twentieth-century Yemen /
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  • Chapter Eight. Shabazī in Tel Aviv /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Appendix One. The word "Ḥumaynī" /
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  • Appendix Two. Ḥumaynī form, structure, and prosody /
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  • Appendix Three. Orthography and prosody in St /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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