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Hardcover The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿabbāsid Poetics in Abū Al-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī's Saq&#778 Book

ISBN: 900449927X

ISBN13: 9789004499270

The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿabbāsid Poetics in Abū Al-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī's Saq̊

In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late ʿAbbāsid master-poet, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqṭ al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qaṣīdah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics.

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