Table of Contents

Preface

Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-Qays

Pamela Klasova

Parody and the Creation of the Muḥdath Ghazal

Ahmad Almallah

Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies

Akiko Sumi

Andalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)

James T. Monroe

Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition

Ross Brann

Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu:

Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco

Carl Davila

Ibn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)

Nizar F. Hermes

The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature

Yaseen Noorani

Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry

C. Ceyhun Arslan

Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)

Levi Thompson

The Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān Dammū

Suneela Mubayi

Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery

Sayed Elsisi

Disturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Clarissa Burt

The Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity

Hatem Alzahrani

About the Author

Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her work focuses on modernist movements or trends in Arabic poetry and their relationship to the Arabic literary tradition. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (2021). She is the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (2017), The Sky That Denied Me (2020), and Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selections from Salim Barakat (2021). She is the Coeditor-in-Chief of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, USA. She is a specialist in Classical Arabic poetry. Her books include: Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‘Abbāsid Age (1991); The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual (1993, paperback 2011); The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode (2002); The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muḥammad (2010) and The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow : Late ʿ Abbāsid Poetics in Abūal-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam (2023). She serves as Executive Editor of the Brill Studies in Middle East Literatures monograph series.