1. Ka'b ibn Zuhayr and the Mantle of the Prophet (SAW)2. Al-Busiri a Burda and the Dream of the Mantle3. Ahmad Shawqi and the Reweaving of the Mantle5 Weeks Delivery time on the HardBack Edition.
Three masterpieces of Islamic devotional poetry in their cultural contexts"A
work of scholarship at the highest level, critically groundbreaking,
textually grounded, elegantly argued, and of a depth and breadth that is
rare in any field." —Michael Sells, author of Desert Tracings: Six
Classic Arabian Odes"A
great achievement in literary theory and Islamic thought and a
significant contribution to Arabic literature." —Muhsin al-Musawi,
author of Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in ConflictThree
of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span
the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval
Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. Over the centuries, they have
informed the poetic and religious life of the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych places her original translations of the
poems within the odes' broader cultural context. By highlighting their
transformative power as speech acts and their ritual function as gift
exchanges, this book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems
to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to
the modern reader.Publisher: Indiana University Press
Author: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Pages: 336
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