Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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The discussion of the ways in which pre-modern Arabic writings visualize the body in action at moments of creativity will be anchored in Kitāb al-aghānī’s description of Jarīr on the night he composed one of his most famous satires. Rashwan offers a fresh perspective on ancient Egyptian literature of the second millennium BC by comparing stylistic devices of the pharaonic era with Arabic jinās.

Chapter Three : Majallat Shi‘r and Arab Poetics: Towards the Poem of Revelation (Kashf) and Vision (Ru‘yā).

Harb’s focus on Jurjānī and his successors allows her to show the convergence of wonder as an aesthetic theory from multiple vantages, since compositional eloquence also arises from deducing unapparent, and at times unexpected, meanings about the context of speech additional to its original meaning based on the syntactical structure, the discovery of which instills wonder (217-33).

The chapter also deals with the magazine’s basic definitions of modern Arabic poetics trying to outline these definitions and trace the developments the magazine underwent on this issue: the shift of the Arabic poem/ qaṣīda from one governed by the rules of rhyme and meter into something completely free of any textual or para-textual rules.This chapter also looks at the literary path the magazine took and how this led to fierce debates with Majallat al-Ādāb (Magazine of Literatures) and other literary and journalistic bodies. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As the title suggests, Harb’s main concern is with the poeticity of language: what makes something poetic?