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Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Reconstructing Arabian Myth

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Reconstructing Arabian Myth

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.ContentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian MythThe Textual PuzzleThe Thamudic Backdrop to the PuzzleThe First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on TabukThe Totem and the TabooPoeticizing the ThamudDemythologizing the ThamudThe ScreamThe Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and GilgameshConclusion

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Indiana University Press

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0253214130

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9780253214133

The Zephyrs of Najd

The Poetics of Nostalgia in The Classical Arabic Nasib

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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The Zephyrs of Najd

The Poetics of Nostalgia in The Classical Arabic Nasib

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib) of the classic Arab code, or qusidah. In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in Arabo-Islamic mystical poetry, into expressions of spiritual nostalgia. Stetkevych also draws intriguing parallels between the highlands of Najd in Arabic poetry and Arcadia in the European tradition. He concludes by exploring the degree to which the pastoral-paradisiacal archetype of the nasib pervades Arabic literary perception, from the pre-Islamic ode through the Thousand and One Nights and later texts. Enhanced by Stetkevych's sensitive translations of all the Arabic texts discussed, The Zephyrs of Najd brings the classical Arabic ode fully into the purview of contemporary literary and critical discourse.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226773353

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Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Reconstructing Arabian Myth

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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The Modern Arabic Literary Language

Lexical and Stylistic Developments

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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The Modern Arabic Literary Language

Lexical and Stylistic Developments

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

The Modern Arabic Literary Language is a thoughtful examination of the changes that the Arabic language has undergone in its transition from its roots in classical Arabic to a language able to meet the demands of twentieth-century life. In this volume a respected and masterful scholar of the Arabic language Jaroslav Stetkevych notes the ways that new words have been incorporated into the language, ranging from deriving new terms from existing roots (for example, the word for "newspaper" derives from the word meaning "sheet to write on") to downright assimilation of foreign words. Also noting the changes in grammar and semantics, Stetkevych illustrates how literary Arabic has become a more flexible language. Originally published in 1970, this volume is a clear assessment of lexical and stylistic developments in Modern Literary Arabic. This classic book is an important resource for scholars and advanced students of Arabic language and linguistics who wish to study the complexities of language change and lexical expansion.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589011171

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9781589011175

The Zephyrs of Najd

The Poetics of Nostalgia in The Classical Arabic Nasib

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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The Poetics of Nostalgia in The Classical Arabic Nasib

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The Modern Arabic Literary Language

Lexical and Stylistic Developments

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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Lexical and Stylistic Developments

By: Jaroslav Stetkevych

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Book's by Jaroslav Stetkevych

Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Muhammad and the Golden Bough

The Zephyrs of Najd

The Zephyrs of Najd

Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Muhammad and the Golden Bough

The Modern Arabic Literary Language

The Modern Arabic Literary Language

The Zephyrs of Najd

The Zephyrs of Najd

The Modern Arabic Literary Language

The Modern Arabic Literary Language

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