The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives

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Classical and Modern Perspectives

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Edited by Nizar F. Hermes, University of Virginia, Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College in Singapore

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2020
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781474406536

Subjects:: Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, Religion, Politics and International Relations, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy

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This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern ‘Arab’ authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds.

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Classical and Modern Perspectives

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-vii

Preface
pp viii-xviii

1 - The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City
pp 1-18

2 - Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al-Sahmī’s Jurjan
pp 19-37

3 - Against Cities: On Hijāʾ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry
pp 38-62

4 - The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Ḥarīrī
pp 63-80

5 - “Woe is me for Qayrawan!” Ibn Sharaf ’s Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape
pp 81-102

6 - In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordoba
pp 103-123

7 - The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networks
pp 124-137

8 - Citystruck
pp 138-164

9 - Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech
pp 165-185

10 - Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary
pp 186-205

11 - Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s
pp 206-222

12 - The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City
pp 223-246

13 - Baṣrayātha: Self-portrait as a City
pp 247-267

14 - Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumption
pp 268-286

15 - Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
pp 287-305

16 - Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
pp 306-325

About the Contributors
pp 326-330

Index
pp 331-339

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