Šakwā and ḏamm az-zamān in Abū Tammām and Buḥturī
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The present paper discusses Abū Tammām’s and Buḥturī’s frequent plaints about Time or the times and aims at demonstrating the conventionality and rhetoricity of their grievances and at highlighting their contribution to the shaping and growth of this poetic theme. Special attention is paid to how such plaints fit within the overall structures of their poems, especially eulogies. Rather than being an expression of genuine dismay at the corruption of their times, the two poets’ recurrent blame of Time or the times was a literary convention mostly meant to convey material anxiety.
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aṣ-Ṣūlī, Aḫbār Abī Tammām (Cairo: Lajnat at-taʾlīf wa-t-tarjama wa-n-našr, 1937), 104–5.
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Ibn Rašīq, al-ʿUmda fī maḥāsin aš-šiʿr wa-ādābihī (Cairo: Maṭbaʿat as-saʿāda, 1963), 64. Likewise Jurjānī remarks that Buḥturī made fall into oblivion five hundred contemporary poets: al-Wasāṭa bayna l-Mutanabbī wa-ḫuṣūmihī (Cairo: Dār iḥyāʾ al-kutub al-ʿarabīya, 1951), 160; cf. Saleh Achtar, Buḥturī: Un poète arabe du IIIe siècle de l’Hégire (IXe s. de J.C.) (Paris: Université de Paris, 1953 [unpublished doctoral thesis]), 162–3 and 289, note 2.
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Mufti, Shakwā, 5–6, 60, 85; Šahrī, aš-Šakwā, 13, 75–7, 467–8, 470–1; Ḥusayn Ṣ. al-ʿAllāq, Šuʿarāʾ al-kuttāb fī l-ʿIrāq fī l-qarn aṯ-ṯāliṯ al-hijrī (Baghdad: publisher not identified, 1975), 91.
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Šahrī, aš-Šakwā, 20–8. Franz Rosenthal, “Sweeter Than Hope”: Complaint and Hope in Medieval Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1983), 9.
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See ʿAllāq, Šuʿarāʾ al-kuttāb, 129–34; Mufti, Shakwā, 122; Šahrī, aš-Šakwā, 80–3.
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Cf. Stefan Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (Cambridge: University Press, 1989), 15–7.
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Šakwā and ḏamm az-zamān in Abū Tammām and Buḥturī
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The present paper discusses Abū Tammām’s and Buḥturī’s frequent plaints about Time or the times and aims at demonstrating the conventionality and rhetoricity of their grievances and at highlighting their contribution to the shaping and growth of this poetic theme. Special attention is paid to how such plaints fit within the overall structures of their poems, especially eulogies. Rather than being an expression of genuine dismay at the corruption of their times, the two poets’ recurrent blame of Time or the times was a literary convention mostly meant to convey material anxiety.
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 59 | 17 | 7 |