“Passed around by a Crescent”: Wine Poetry in the Literary Traditions of the Islamic World

Kirill Dmitriev; Christine van Ruymbeke

doi:10.5771/9783956509094

Summary

This publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu literatures during the first millennium of the Islamic era. Presenting these together and in dialogue with one another, the volume offers a comparative perspective on a long, varied, but singularly mutual tradition. It traces how this poetry develops, flourishes and matures across linguistic and geographic, confessional and social, aesthetic and artistic boundaries within the regions of the religiously and culturally diverse Islamic world, from al-Andalūs to India.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95650-908-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95650-909-4
Publisher: Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS)
Volume: 142
Language: English
Pages: 358
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction: Approaching the Entanglements of a LiteraryNetwork No access Pages 7 - 14
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Exordium: On (Not) Drinking: al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāma 48 No access Pages 15 - 26
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1. ʿAdī Ibn Zayd al-ʿIbādī and the Origins of Arabic Khamriyya No access Pages 29 - 48
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2. Ḥāletī’s Sāqīnāma and the Emergence of an Ottoman Genre No access Pages 49 - 62
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1. The Image of Wine in Poem 2 by Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī (Ali Ahmad Hussein) No access Pages 65 - 72
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2. Beautifying Wine Drinking: Some Observations on Khamriyyāt Conventional Themes No access Pages 73 - 82
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3. The Theme of Wine and Love in Medieval Andalusian Strophic Poetry: From Arabic and Hebrew Muwashshaḥāt to Ibn Quzmān’s Azjāl No access Pages 83 - 96
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4. Wine Poetry in the Dīwān of Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār No access Pages 97 - 120
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1. “Bury me under the grapevine”: Comparative Perspectives on an Arabic-Latin Motif of Transgression No access Pages 123 - 148
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2. The Impact of Abū Nuwās on Arabic and Hebrew Andalusian Poetry No access Pages 149 - 168
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3. The Dispute between Cup and Jug in the Court of Wine: A Poem by Joseph ben Tanḥum Yerushalmi from Mamluk Egypt No access Pages 169 - 180
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1. Wine for the King, Wine for the Hero: The Literary Role of Wine as a Body- and Mind-Altering Catalyst in Firdawsi’s Shahnama masnavi No access Pages 183 - 208
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2. Wine and the Pleasures of Delhi in Urdu Court Poetry No access Pages 209 - 222
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1. Poetry as Provocation: The Khamriyyāt of al-Walīd ibn Yazīd (d. 6/743) () No access Pages 225 - 238
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2. Toward an Integral Abū Nuwās: Evidence of Transgressive Religiosity in His Khamriyyāt and Zuhdiyyāt No access Pages 239 - 274
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3. The Wine-Drinking Party in Medieval Hebrew Poetry No access Pages 275 - 290
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1. Mystical Wine: The Khamriyya of Ibn al-Fāriḍ (576–632/1181–1235) No access Pages 293 - 308
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2. Mystifying Wine: An Analysis of Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī’s Commentary on Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Wine Ode No access Pages 309 - 324
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3. The Circulation of the Astonishing Cup: The Many Facets of Wine Symbolism in Bedil’s Sāqīnāmah, Muḥīṭ-i aʿẓam No access Pages 325 - 346
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Index No access Pages 347 - 358