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With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the 'formative period of Islamic thought', the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category.Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and recent scholarship, Writing and Repre

Arabic literature --- History and criticism. --- 750-1258 --- History and criticism --- 1258-1800 --- Littérature arabe --- Islam et littérature --- Histoire et critique

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Arabic literature --- Arabic literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism --- 1258-1800. --- History and criticism. --- Eroticism in literature --- Sex in literature --- Women in literature

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Arabic literature --- -Crusades in literature --- Europeans in literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Franks in literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- History and criticism --- Crusades in literature --- 750-1258 --- 1258-1800 --- Europe --- Foreign public opinion [Arabic ] --- History

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"In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an "Age of Decay" followed by an "Awakening" (al-nahdah). His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully documenting a "republic of letters" in the Islamic Near East and South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the massive cultural production of the period was not a random enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons, and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars, too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by side with those by distinguished scholars and poets. Through careful exploration of these networks, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters makes use of relevant theoretical frameworks to situate this culture in the ongoing discussion of non-Islamic and European efforts. Thorough, theoretically rigorous, and nuanced, al-Musawi's book is an original contribution to a range of fields in Arabic and Islamic cultural history of the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. "Muhsin al-Musawi's work systematizes a huge body of primary literary texts and current scholarship under a compelling and original thesis. The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters will be the starting point for a new generation of scholarship on this six-hundred-year 'republic of letters' that stretched from India to North Africa." --Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University"--

Islam --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Arabic literature --- Islamic literature --- RELIGION / Islam / History. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Religion --- History --- Literary criticism --- Arabic literature. --- Islamic literature. --- Islam. --- Literatur. --- Arabisch. --- Schriftlichkeit. --- Kultur. --- Wissen. --- Intellektueller. --- Netzwerk. --- History. --- Medieval. --- 1258-1800.

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This book fills a long-standing gap in Arabic-Islamic studies. Following the informative and entertaining style of adab literature and based on a large number of relevant sources from a wide range of genres, Hasan Shuraydi presents a panoramic view of relevant themes that concern youth and old age in Medieval Arabic literature intended for both specialists and non-specialists. A pattern of binary oppositions runs through such themes, e.g., black/white, male/female, husband/wife, sacred/profane, paradise/this world, ignorance/wisdom, past/present, young/old, new/old, health/disease, sappy/dry, permitted/forbidden, lust/chastity, obedience/disobedience, experience/inexperience, folly/reason, sobriety/intoxication, parent/child, celibacy/marriage, present life/hereafter. Themes discussed include: aging, ambition, aphrodisiacs, beauty, education, feminist trends, hair dyeing, homosexuality, honoring age, jihad, life stages, longevity, love, marriage, sex.

Aging in literature --- Arabic literature / 1258-1800 / History and criticism --- Arabic literature / 750-1258 / History and criticism --- Old age in literature --- Youth in literature --- Alter --- Jugend --- Literatur --- Klassisches Arabisch --- Adab --- Littérature arabe --- Vieillissement --- Jeunesse --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Alter. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Jugend. --- Literatur. --- Arabic literature --- Old age in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Youth in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Older people in literature --- Adab. --- Klassisches Arabisch.