The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures : the Culture of Love and Languishing.
"In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject...
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I.B. Tauris,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Author bio; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Dangerous Love; 1 Writing to the End of Love: Waḥıd and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-RuÌ#x84;mı; Abstract; Introduction; I. The Philological Measures of Love; II. The Painful Grammar of a World That Rhymes with Her Name; III. Grammatically in Love; IV. Ghazal: The Mode Immortal; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North; Abstract; Introduction; Displaced Sexuality; Sexualizing the Orient; Rewriting Sexuality; Conclusion; Notes.
- 6 Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of FuruÌ#x84;gh FarrukhzaÌ#x84;dNotes; Bibliography; 7 Making Love through Scholarship in Jamıl Buthayna; Poem 27; Notes; Bibliography; 8 JahaÌ#x84;n Malik KhaÌ#x84;tuÌ#x84;n: Gender, Canon, and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess; Who and Where Is the Beloved?; The Quest for Extratextual Reality; Poetry as a Fictitious Transfiguration; The Poetic Masks of the Author; Gender Trouble; The World: An Attempt of Ambiguous Refeminization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Erotic Love.
- 9 Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic CompendiumLove and the Beloved in Early Arabic Literature; The Encyclopedia of Pleasure and the Nature of Love; Encyclopedia of Pleasure: A Sexual Ethic for the Elite; The Beloved in the Encyclopedia of Pleasure; The Loverâ#x80;#x99;s Duty; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; 10 Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltanâ#x80;#x99;s; Notes; Bibliography; 11 Tempting the Theologian: The â#x80;#x9C;Cureâ#x80;#x9D; of Wineâ#x80;#x99;s Seduction; The Reading; Erotic Antidote: More Wine!; The Ecstasy of Wine.
- From the Lips of the Grail: Figures of SeductionUnbearable Lightness; The Abode of Wine; More than You Know; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Dialectical Love; 12 Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition; Introduction; Debates on Philosophy and Literature; Dialectical Discourse in Ottoman Divan Love Poetry; Analysis of the Dialectical Discourse in Poems; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.
