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L’adab, toujours recommencé
"Origins", Transmissions, and Metamorphoses of Adab literature
Series: - Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies, Volume: 4
The notion of
adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of
adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.
Francesca Bellino, Ph.D. (Firenze, 2005) is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her field of research concerns pre-modern Arabic literature and she has worked in particular on popular literature, encyclopedism, and
adab literature.
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne Université (Paris). She works on religious and cultural history of Early Modern and Modern Egypt. Her most recent edited book is: Adab and Modernity. A “Civilising Process” ? (Sixteenth-Twenty-first Century), Leiden, Brill, 2019.
Luca Patrizi is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. He has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Geneva, Sorbonne-Paris, Bonn and Exeter. His interests in Islamic studies focus on theological and ethical issues and on the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne Université (Paris). She works on religious and cultural history of Early Modern and Modern Egypt. Her most recent edited book is: Adab and Modernity. A “Civilising Process” ? (Sixteenth-Twenty-first Century), Leiden, Brill, 2019.
Luca Patrizi is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. He has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Geneva, Sorbonne-Paris, Bonn and Exeter. His interests in Islamic studies focus on theological and ethical issues and on the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.
Contents
Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé
“Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
2 From Education to Etiquette
An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab
Luca Patrizi
3 Paideia et adab
Quelques remarques préliminaires
Jakub Sypiański
4 De l’adab au musar
La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen Âge
Francesca Gorgoni
Introduction to Part 2
Francesca Bellino
5 Wine, Law and Irony
al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)
Ignacio Sánchez
6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab
Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār
Francesca Bellino
7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166)
Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’ adab
Francesco Chiabotti
8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought
Neguin Yavari
10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions
Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval
Monica Balda-Tillier
Introduction to Part 3
Francesca Bellino
11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna
István T. Kristó-Nagy
12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna
Thibaut d’Hubert
13 Adab as Metamorphosis
Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī
Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz
14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel?
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”
Stefan Reichmuth
15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree
Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
Hilary Kilpatrick
16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne
Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle
Alessandro Mengozzi
Introduction to Part 4
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval
Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’ adab
Jean-Charles Coulon
18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation
The Irano-Turkic Case
Marc Toutant
19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri
Étienne Naveau
20 Adab into Littérature
Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France
Jonathan Haddad
21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean
Elisabetta Benigni
22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature
From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Index of Names and Places
Index of Titles
Index of Keywords and Notions
Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé
“Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
2 From Education to Etiquette
An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab
Luca Patrizi
Part 1: Backgrounds and Foundations
3 Paideia et adab
Quelques remarques préliminaires
Jakub Sypiański
4 De l’adab au musar
La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen Âge
Francesca Gorgoni
Part 2: The “Origins” of Adab
Introduction to Part 2
Francesca Bellino
Section 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons
5 Wine, Law and Irony
al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)
Ignacio Sánchez
6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab
Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār
Francesca Bellino
7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166)
Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’ adab
Francesco Chiabotti
Section 2: Adab, Power and Ethics
8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought
Neguin Yavari
10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions
Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval
Monica Balda-Tillier
Part 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the Centuries
Introduction to Part 3
Francesca Bellino
Section 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West
11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna
István T. Kristó-Nagy
12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna
Thibaut d’Hubert
Section 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt
13 Adab as Metamorphosis
Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī
Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz
14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel?
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”
Stefan Reichmuth
Section 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies
15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree
Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
Hilary Kilpatrick
16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne
Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle
Alessandro Mengozzi
Part 4: Metamorphoses of Origins
Introduction to Part 4
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Section 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism
17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval
Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’ adab
Jean-Charles Coulon
18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation
The Irano-Turkic Case
Marc Toutant
19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri
Étienne Naveau
Section 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins?
20 Adab into Littérature
Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France
Jonathan Haddad
21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean
Elisabetta Benigni
22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature
From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Index of Names and Places
Index of Titles
Index of Keywords and Notions
All interested in the history of Islamicate
adab, Islamic education and ethics, and Middle Eastern Literatures.