Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities

Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities
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Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781000701203
ISBN-13 : 1000701204
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Book Synopsis Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities by : Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

Download or read book Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities written by Ruqayya Yasmine Khan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the paradigm shift that occurred in the ‘Abbāsid empire after the Greco-Arabian intellectual revolution. Moreover, this book demonstrates how gender and sexuality are employed in the processes of primitivizing Majnūn. As markers of "strangeness" and "foreignness" in the ‘Abbāsid interrogations of the multiple categories of ethnicity, culture, identity, religion and language present in their cosmopolitan milieus. Such "cultural work" is performed through the ideological uses of alterity given its mechanisms of distancing (e.g., temporal and spatial) and nearness (e.g., affective). Lastly, the Majnūn Laylā love story demonstrates, in its text and reception, that a Greco-Arabian and Greco-Persian subculture thrived in the centers of ‘Abbāsid Baghdad that molded and shaped the ways in which this love story was compiled, received and performed. Offering a corrective to the prevailing views expressed in Western scholarly writings on the Greco-Arabian encounter, this book is a major contribution to scholars and students interested in Islamic studies, Arabic and comparative literature, Middle East and gender studies.


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