Description in classical Arabic poetry : : waṣf, ekphrasis, and interarts theory / / Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi.

• Author: Sumi, Akiko Motoyoshi.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2003
• संस्करण: 1st ed.
• भाषा: English
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations
• टिप्पणियाँ: Description based upon print version of record.

This work deals with ""wasf"" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the ""qasidah"" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic ""qasidah"" from different ages,...

Table of Contents

• Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter One: Contest as Ceremony: A Pre-Islamic Poetic Contest in Horse Description of Imru' al-Qays vs. 'Alqamahal-Fahl; Chapter Two: Remedy and Resolution: Bees and Honey-Gathering in Two Hudhalī Odes; Chapter Three: Reality and Reverie: Wine and Ekphrasis in the 'Abbāsid Poetry of Abu Nuwās and al-Buhturī; Chapter Four: Sensibility and Synaesthesia: Ibn al-Rumī's Singing Slave-Girl; Chapter Five: Poetry and Portraiture: A Double Portrait in a Panegyric; Conclusion; Appendix of Arabic Texts; Works Cited; Index