Throwing Down the Verbal Gauntlet : The Arabic Invective of Jarīr and al-Farazdaq /
Throwing Down the Verbal Gauntlet<.i> showcases Arab "rapper" poets Jarīr and al-Farazdaq. This eighth-century duo is best known for a series of verbal battles (flytings) they carried out over several decades. Verbal Gauntlet argues that these poets performed in order to elevate thei...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
سلاسل:
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: PK6530
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Naqāʾiḍ and " The Naqāʾiḍ "
- 2 Performance
- 1 The Performance: Jarīr, al-Farazdaq, and the Naqāʾiḍ
- 1 Performance Aspects of the Naqāʾiḍ
- 2 Naqāʾiḍ Passages
- 2 The Stage: Mirbad Market
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Style and Content of the Naqāʾiḍ
- 3 "Emergence" of Social Structure
- 4 Conclusion
- 3 The Process: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq's "Collusion"
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Stock Devices
- 3 Conclusion
- 4 The Goal: Winning Over the Audience
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Managing Poetic Image
- 3 Gaining Poetic Prestige
- 4 Conclusion
- Appendix1: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq's Naqāʾiḍ Corpus
- Appendix2: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq's Qaṣīda Structure
- Appendix3: Quoted Passages
- Appendix4: Naqāʾiḍ Poems
- Bibliography
- Index.
