QUADERNI DI STUDI ARABI
VENEZIA
ANNO XVIII (2000)
LITERARY INNOVATION: SCHOOLS AND JOURNALS
STEFAN WILD
Ed C.M. de Moor in memoriam ………………………………………………...........................................
3
ROSELLA DORIGO
Il IV Congresso dell’EMTAR: processi culturali associativi nel rinnovamento lettarario arabo moderno
7
SABRY HAFEZ
Literary Innovation: Schools and Journals ……………………………………………………………..
17
ASHRAF A. EISSA
"Majallat al-Jinān ": Arabic Narrative Discourse in the Making …………………………………..……
41
ROGER ALLEN
Mu|ammad al-Muwayli|ī's Coterie: the Context of ðadīth ‘‡sā ibn Hishām …………………………….
51
BOUTROS HALLAQ
Articulation du particulier et de l'universel chez Ya|yā ðaqqī et al-Madrasa al-ðadītha ……………….
61
ROBIN OSTLE
The "Apollo Phenomenon" …………………………………………………...……………………...……
73
ED. DE MOOR †
The Rise and Fall of the Review "Shi‘r" ……………………………………………………………….....
85
FRANCESCA M. CORRAO
"Ši‘r": Poetics in Progress ………………………………………………………………………………...
97
SOBHI BOUSTANI
Poème en prose et rythme: les écrits de Unsī al-ðājj ………………………………………………...….. 105
EROS BALDISSERA
Congress of the Foundation of the League of Arab Writers (Damascus 1954)
According to the magazine "al-Äaqāfa al-wa¥aniyya" ………………………………….……...… 121
MONICA RUOCCO
Qaÿāyā wa-šahādāt: la breve vita di una rivista indipendente …………………………………………... 141
RICHARD VAN LEEUWEN
Literary Journalism and the Field of Literature: the Case of "Akhbār al-adab" ………………………… 151
BARBARA MICHALAK-PIKULSKA
From a¥-¦abā¥ibā’ī to Rābi¥at al-Udabā' in Kuwait ……………………………………………...………. 169
WIEBKE WALTHER
The Beginnings of the Realistic School of Narrative Prose in Iraq …………………………………….... 175
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LUC-WILLY DEHEUVELS
Mouvance littéraire, positionnement et investissement générìque: al-Sudd et le "Théâtre de l'esprit" .…. 199
NOTE E DOCUMENTI
MERCEDES DEL AMO
El conocimiento de la literatura marroquí en Espana (1940-2000) ………………………………...…… 209
ELIE KALLAS
Ibn al-Kilā‘ī (15ème-16ème siecles) pioinnier de la littérature neo-arabe chrétienne du Mont Liban …...... 221
RECENSIONI …………………………………..………………………………………………………… 231-254
A. GALLAND, Le voyage à Smyrne. Un manuscrit d'Antoine Galland, éd. F. Bauden, Paris 2000 (M.P. Pedani);
Osmanlı, Ankara 1999 (M.P. Pedani); M. MEOUAK, Pouvoir souverain, administration centrale et élites
politiques dans l'Espagne umayyade (IIe-IVe/VIIIe-Xe siècles), Helsinki 1999 (M.P. Pedani); D. HOWARD,
Venice & the East: the Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500, New Haven - London
2000 (M.P. Pedani); M.D. RODRÍGUEZ GÓMEZ, Las Riberas nazarí y del Maghreb (siglos XIII-XV).
Intercambios económicos y culturales, Granada 2000 (R. Tottoli); Y. DUTTON, The Origins of Islamic Law. The
Qur’ān, the Muwa¥¥a’ and the Madinan ‘Amal, Richmond 1999 (R. Tottoli); ‘IZZ AL-DĪN ‘ABD AL-SALAM,
Mağāz al-Qur’ān, ed. M.M.H. al-åahabī, London 1999 (R. Tottoli); D.A. KING, World-Maps for Finding the
Directions and Distance to Mecca, London - Leiden 1999 (R. Tottoli); P. GRAN, Islamic Roots of Capitalism.
Egypt, 1760-1840, Syracuse 1998 (P.L. Branca); "New Arabian Studies", 5, Exeter 2000 (P.M. Costa); R.
HETZRON (ed.), The Semitic Languages, London-New York 1997 (R. Contini); J. WANSBROUGH, Lingua Franca
in the Mediterranean, Richmond 1996 (R. Contini); E. KALLAS, Qui est arabophone?, Gorizia 1999 (A.
Zaborski); Les Mu‘allaqāt. Les sept poèmes préislamiques, trad. P. Larcher, [Saint-Clément de Rivère] 2000 (A.
Ghersetti); Y. SULEIMAN, The Arabic Grammatical Tradition. A Study in ta‘līl, Edinburgh 1999 (A. Ghersetti);
J. GRAND'HENRY, Grammaire arabe à l'usage des Arabes. Trad. fr. et commentaires des Élements d'arabe,
morphologie et syntaxe, II, de R. Chartouni, Louvain-la-Neuve 2000 (A. Ghersetti); P.M. KURPERSHOEK, Oral
Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, III, Leiden 1999 (G. Canova); A. VROLIJK, Bringing a Laugh to a
Scowling Face. A Study and Critical Edition of the "Nuzhat al-nufūs wa-muÿ|ik al-‘abūs" by ‘Alī ibn Sūdūn,
Leiden 1998 (G. Canova).
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ANNO XIX (2001)
PATRICIA CRONE
Shūrā as an Elective Institution …………………………………………………………………………...
5
TAYEB EL-HIBRI
The Image of the Caliph al-Wāthiq: A Riddle of Religious and Historical Significance …………………
41
OFER LIVNE-KAFRI
Faÿā’il Bayt al-Maqdis ("The Merits of Jerusalem"): Two Additional Notes ………………………..…..
61
ARNOUD VROLIJK
The Leiden Edition of ¦abarī's Annals. The Search for the Istanbul Manuscripts as Reflected in Michael
Jan de Goeje's Correspondence …………………………………………………………………. 71
MARIA PIA PEDANI
Appunti sul Consolato veneto in Marocco nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo ………………………...
87
FRANCESCA LUCCHETTA
Le dieci questioni di Avicenna ……………………………………………………………………..…….. 101
ROXANE D. MARCOTTE
L'anthropologie philosophique de Shams al-Dīn al-Shahrazūrī et ses racines suhrawardiennes: les facultés internes ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 135
SEEGER A. BONEBAKKER
The Misery of the Men of Letters. Some Quotations from their Poetry ………………………………..… 147
BARBARA MICHALAK-PIKULSKA
Contemporary Arabic Theatre in Kuwait and Bahrain ………………………………………………….. 163
JOSEPH SADAN
Background, Date and Meaning of the Story of the Alexandrian Lover and the Magic Lamp ………….. 173
ELISABETH ZACK
The Use of Colloquial Arabic in Prose Literature: Laban il‘a¡fūr by Yūsuf al-Qa‘īd ………………..….. 193
NOTE E DOCUMENTI
ISTVÁN ORMOS
Lane's Description of Egypt ……………………………………………………………………………… 221
RECENSIONI ……………………………………………………………………………………….… 225-235
R. BUKHAREV, Islam in Russia. The Four Seasons, London 2000 (R. Tottoli); K. FLEET (ed.), The Ottomans and
the Sea («Oriente moderno», n.s., 20 [71]/1, 2001), Roma 2001 (M.P. Pedani); Grandes villes méditerranéennes
du monde musulman médiéval, sous la direction de Jean-Claude Garcin, Rome 2000 (M.P. Pedani); A.
ILLUMINATI, Completa beatitudo. L'intelletto felice in tre opuscoli averroisti, Chiaravalle 2000 (F. Lucchetta);
AVERROÈS, La béatitude de l'âme. Éditions, traductions et études par M. Geoffroy et C. Steel, Paris 2001 (A.
ILLUMINATI); USĀMA IBN MUNQIå, Le lezioni della vita. Un principe siriano e le Crociate, a cura di M.
Cassarino, Milano 2001 (A. Ghersetti); A. BORO - M. AZZOPARDI-ALEXANDER, Maltese, London - New York
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1997 (R. Contini); P. MANDUCHI, Da Tangeri a La Mecca passando per la Cina. Per una storia del viaggio nel
mondo musulmano sulle orme di Ibn Ba¥¥ū¥a, Cagliari 2000 (G. Ederle); P. CENTLIVRES - M. CENTLIVRESDEMONT, Imageries populaires en Islam, Genève 1997 (F. Bellino).
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n.s. ANNO I (2006)
Editoriale (G.C.) ………………………………………………………………………………………….
3
Obituary of Seeger A. Bonebakker (G.J. van Gelder) …………………………………………………….
5
JASON THOMPSON, Small Latin and Less Greek: Expurgated Passages from Edward William Lane's An
Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modem Egyptians ………………………………...
7
KHALID SINDAWI, Noah and Noah's Ark as the Primordial Model of Shī‘ism in Shī‘ite Literature ……..
29
OFER LIVNE-KAFRI
Luka‘ b. Luka‘ in Muslim Apocalyptic Traditions ………………………………………………………..
49
CARMEN DARCELO
Un epitaffio islamico proveniente da Maiorca portato a Pisa come trofeo di guerra? …………………..
55
RACHID EL HOUR
Algeciras, "ciudad" maghrebi en Al-Andalus en época almorávide. Una reflexión acerca de su administración de justicia …………………………………………………………………………...….
69
ALFONSO ALI BEN MOHAMED
Su Umm al-ðasan, poetessa andalusa ……………………………………………………………………
81
LETIZIA OSTI
Scholarly Competition in the Third/Ninth Century Baghdad: The Case of Tha‘lab and al-Mubarrad ….. 87
ANTONELLA GHERSETTI
Musiciens, parasites et amoureux: le récit du «Mariage d'Is|āq» ………………………………………. 113
EROS BALDISSERA
Mu|ammad al-Nağğār - nuove luci ……………………………..……………………………………….. 129
FRANCESCA BELLINO
‘Alī contro geni, demoni e dragoni nella letteratura delle maÐāzī leggendarie …………………………. 155
‘ABDALKARIM AðMAD AL-SĀLIMĪ - HANNE SCHÖNIG
Birth Custom in Zabīd (Yemen) …………………………………………………..………………………. 171
MIKHAIL RODIONOV
Social Restratification: How It Goes in ðaÿramawt Today ……………………………………………… 181
GIOVANNI CANOVA
Le iscrizioni nel complesso dei dervisci Mevlevi del Cairo: il mausoleo di Sunqur al-Sa‘dī (qubba di ðasan Ÿadaqa) …………………………………………………………………………………….... 191
RECENSIONI …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 217-237
R. TOTTOLI, Biblical Prophets in the Qur’ān and Muslim Literature, London 2002 (B. Wheeler); D. DE SMIT G. DE CALLATAY - J.M.F. VAN REETH (eds.), Al-Kitāb. La sacralité dans le monde de l'Islam, Bruxelles Louvain-la-Neuve - Leuven 2004 (R. Tottoli); J.W. MERI, The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in
Medieval Syria, Oxford 2002 (R. Tottoli); E. FRANCESCA (a cura di), Il Principe e i Saggi. Potere e giustizia nel
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Medioevo, Monza 2005 (I. Zilio-Grandi); C. CRESCENTI, La ricerca della perfezione nella recitazione coranica.
Trattato sulla scienza del tajwîd, Firenze 2005 (P. Branca); IBN AL-MUNAĞĞIM - QUS¦À IBN LŪQĀ, Una
corrispondenza islamo-cristiana sull'origine divina dell'Islam, introd., trad. e note a cura di I. ZILIO-GRANDI,
Torino 2003 (B. Pirone); J.J. SANCHEZ SANDOVAL, Sufismo y poder en Marruecos, Cadiz 2004 (M. Campanini);
P.E. WALKER, ðamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī. Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-ðākim, London - New York, 1999 (A.
Straface); P. LARCHER, Le système verbal de l'arabe classique, Aix-en-Provence 2003 (A. Ghersetti); V.
COLOMBO (a cura di), L'altro Mediterraneo. Antologia di scrittori arabi del Novecento, Milano 2004 (A.
Ghersetti); M.G. CARTER, Sībawayhi, London 2004 (A.S. Kaye); A. ROUCHDY (ed.), Language Contact and
Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme, London 2002 (A.S. Kaye); J.
ROSENHOUSE, Arabic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial
Palestinian Arabic, Rosh Ha‘ayin 2002 (A.S. Kaye); J. HEATH, Hassaniya. Arabic (Mali)-English-French
Dictionary, Wiesbaden 2004 (S. Baldi); P.M. KURPERSHOEK, Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia, V,
Voices from the Desert, Leiden-Boston 2005 (G. Canova).
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n.s. ANNO II (2007)
POPULAR ARABIC POETRY AND SONG, ed. by Clive HOLES
Introduction (C. H.) ……………………………………………………………………………………….
3
Margaret LARKIN
The Dust of the Master: A Maml™k-Era Zajal by Khalaf al-Ghub…r† …………………………………….
11
Pierre CACHIA
Of Loose Verse and Masculine Beauty …………………………………………………………………...
31
Clive HOLES & Sa‘id Salman ABU ATHERA
Animal Imagery in Modern Bedouin Poetry ……………………………………………………………...
41
Veronika RITT-BENMIMOUN
The Gap Between Tradition and Modernity as Mirrored in the Bedouin Poetry of Southern Tunisia ….
53
Said ENNAHID
The Archaeology of Space in Moroccan Oral Tradition: The Case of Mal|™n Poetry …………………..
71
Kathryn STAPLEY
Linguistic Aspects of the Tunisian M…l™f …………………………………………………………………
85
John SHOUP
The Griot Tradition in ðass…niyya Music: The ‡gg…wen …………………………………………………
95
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Shosh BEN-ARI
The Aw…’il Stories: Legitimization of Norms and Customs ……………………………………………… 103
Giovanni CANOVA
‘Al† b. Ab† ¦…lib “principe delle api” ……………………………………………………………………. 119
Pierre LARCHER
Les Mu‘allaq…t: le nombre et le nom, une fois encore …………………………………………………… 135
Ludvik KALUS & Frédérique SOUDAN
Les sceaux dévoilent leurs propriétaires: “soufi raffiné”, “homme de résolution” ou “homme de passion”? ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 157
Reuven SNIR
“The Tail above the Head”: Literary Representations of ‘Abd al-N…¡ir’s Regime as a World Upsidedown ……………………………………………………………………………………………... 181
Mas’ud HAMDAN & Erith JAFFE-BERG
Parallel Currents in Italian and Syrian Comedy: Ghawwar meets Mirandolina ………………………... 209
Basiliyus BAWARDI
Ad™n†s and the Implied Identity towards an Ideological Poetical Text ………………………………….. 223
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NOTE E DOCUMENTI
Michele EMMER
Al-Khayy…m matematico …………………………………………………………………………………. 239
RECENSIONI
H. BERG, The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam. The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the
Formative Period, Richmond 2000 (R. Tottoli); A. CHEDDADI, Ibn Khald™n. L’homme et le théoricien de la
civilisation, Paris 2006 (M. Campanini); A. SCARABEL, Il Sufismo. Storia e dottrina, Roma 2007 (M.
Campanini); D. VALÉRIAN, Bougie, Port maghrébin, 1067-1510, Rome 2006 (M. P. Pedani); G. KHAN, The
Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Sulemaniyya and ðalabja, Leiden-Boston 2004 (R. Contini); W. DIEM & M.
SCHÖLLER, The Living and the Dead in Islam. Studies in Arabic Epitaphs, Wiesbaden 2004 (R. Giunta); ‘Abd
al-Ra|m…n Ibn Na¡r AL-SHAYZAR‡, Rawÿat al-qul™b wa-nuzhat al-mu|ibb wa-l-ma|b™b, Wiesbaden 2003 (A.
Ghersetti); H. ABDUL-RAOF, Arabic Rhetoric. A Pragmatic Analysis, London-New York 2006 (A. Ghersetti);
P.M. COSTA, Mas…Þid ‘Um…n wa aÿri|atuh… al-ta’r†²iyya, Masqat 2006 (G. Canova); Encyclopedia of Arabic
Language and Linguistics, ed. Kees Versteegh, Leiden-Boston, vol. 1, 2006; vol. 2, 2007 (G. Canova) pp. 241254.
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n.s. ANNO III (2008)
LUOGHI E IMMAGINARIO NELLA LETTERATURA ARABA
a cura di Antonella Ghersetti
Introduzione (A. G.) ………………………………………………………………………………………
3
Geert Jan VAN GELDER
The ðamm…m: A Space between Heaven and Hell ……………………………………………………….
9
Jaakko HÄMEEN-ANTTILA
Building an Identity: Place as an Image of Self in Classical Arabic Literature ………………………….
25
Julia BRAY
Place and Self-Image: The Buhl™lids and Tan™²ids and their Family Traditions ………..………………
39
Hilary KILPATRICK
Visions of Distant Cities: Travellers as Poets in the Early Ottoman Period ……………………….…….
67
Aboubakr CHRAÏBI
Île flottante et oeuf de Ru²² ………………………………………………………………………………
83
Mirella CASSARINO
Parole della notte: intessere i saperi nella dimora del visìr ……………………………………………...
97
Francesca M. CORRAO
Luoghi e immaginario nel teatro delle ombre di Ibn D…niy…l al-Maw¡il† ……………………………….. 121
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Pierre CACHIA
Arabic Literatures, “Elite” and “Folk”: Junctions and Disjunctions ………………………………….. 135
Giuseppe MANDALÀ
La sottoscrizione araba di cAbd al-Mas†| (Palermo, 15 ottobre 1201) ………………………………….. 153
Khalid SINDAWI
The Role of Birds in Sh†cite Thought ………………………………………………………………...…… 165
Lucia RAGGETTI
Gli uccelli nel Kit…b al-ðayaw…n di al-ß…|i©: fonti, tradizione, adab …………………………………... 183
Sara FANI
Manuali arabi sulle tecniche di legatura dei libri (sec. XI-XVII) ………………………………………... 201
Giovanni CANOVA
Considerazioni di Ibn al-ð…ÞÞ sull’etica di lavoro di cartai, copisti, rilegatori e decoratori di libri (XIV
secolo) …………………………………………………………………………………………… 219
RECENSIONI ……………………………………………………………………………………...…….. 237
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n.s. ANNO IV (2009)
LES MÉTHODES DE TRAVAIL DES HISTORIENS EN ISLAM
Éditeur invité Frédéric Bauden
Introduction (F. B.) ……………………………………………………………………………………….
3
Wad…d AL-Qƒþ‡
A Documentary Report on Umayyad Stipends Registers (D†w…n al-ca¥…’) in Ab™ Zurca’s T…r†kh ………..
7
Jacqueline SUBLET
Chroniques et ouvrages de biographies: classer les informations, donner un titre à l’ouvrage …………
45
Sami G. MASSOUD
Ibn Q…ÿ† Shuhba’s al-Dhayl al-mu¥awwal: the Making of an all-Mamluk Chronicle ……………………
61
René du GRANDLAUNAY
La liste d’autorités de Shams al-D†n al-Sakh…w† …………………………………………………………
81
Frédéric BAUDEN
Maqriziana XI. Al-Maqr†z† et al-Ÿafad†: Analyse de la (re)construction d’un récit biographique ………
99
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Caterina BORI
Alfred-Louis de Prémare, John Wansbrough e le origini dell’Islam: Questioni di ieri, letture di oggi ..
137
Giovanni CANOVA, Storia del cammello e della gazzella e i miracoli del Profeta ……………………. 159
Oriana CAPEZIO
Il poeta D†k al-ßinn nell’interpretazione di Nas†b cAr†ÿa ……………………………………………….. 177
Amr ZAKHARIA ABD ALLAH
The Theory of the Theatre for the Egyptian Nationalists in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century
193
Antonio PERRI
La tipografia araba e la globalizzazione tipografica …………………………………………………….. 205
RECENSIONI
M. ULLMANN, Untersuchungen zur arabischen Überlieferung der Materia medica des Dioskurides, mit
Beiträgen von R. Degen, Wiesbaden 2009 (C. Baffioni); M. DI BRANCO, Storie arabe di Greci e di Romani.
La Grecia e Roma nella storiografia arabo-islamica medievale, Pisa 2009 (C. Baffioni); C. MALLAT,
Introduction to Middle Eastern Law, Oxford 2007 (A. Cilardo); D. SOURDEL et J. SOURDEL THOMINE,
Certificats de pèlerinage d’époque Ayyoubide. Contribution à l’histoire de l’idéologie de l’Islam au temps des
Croisades, Paris 2006 (C. Bori); W. ARNOLD - M. JURSA - W.W. MÜLLER - S. PROCHÁZKA (eds.),
Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Soqotra. Analecta semitica in memoriam Alexander
Sima, Wiesbaden 2009 (R. Contini); E. DITTERS & H. MOTZKI (eds.), Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Leiden - Boston 2007 (A. Ghersetti); R.
BAALBAKI (ed.), The Early Islamic Grammatical Tradition, Aldershot 2007 (A. Ghersetti); R. BAALBAKI,
The Legacy of the Kit…b. S†bawayhi Analytical Methods within the Context of the Arabic Grammatical Theory,
Leiden 2008 (A. Ghersetti); IBN AL-BAKKƒ’ AL-BALKH‡, The Ghaw…n† al-Ashw…q f† Mac…n† al-cUshsh…q. A
Treatise on the Concept of Love in Classical and Medieval Arabic Heritage, ed. G.J. Kanazi, Wiesbaden 2008
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(A. Ghersetti); G. PIZZI, al-ß…|i© e il Libro degli animali, Vibo Valentia 2008 (A. Ghersetti); R. PERRICONE
(ed.), Mori e cristiani nelle feste popolari e negli spettacoli popolari, Palermo: 2005 (G. Mandalà).
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n.s. ANNO V-VI (2010-2011)
ARABIC POETRY: STUDIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF RESEARCH
Guest Editor: Geert Jan van Gelder
Introduction (Geert Jan van Gelder) ……………………………………………………………………
Gregor SCHOELER
The Genres of Classical Arabic Poetry ………………………………………………………………..….
iii
1
Pierre LARCHER
Traduire les mu‘allaqāt: histoire d’une tradition ………………………………………………………
49
Albert ARAZI
Le narratif dans le nasīb de Bānat Su‘ād ………………………………………………………………....
75
Ewald WAGNER
Was blitzt wo und warum bei Abū Nuwās? ………………………………………………………………
89
Geert Jan VAN GELDER
Poets against Ramadan ………………………………………………………………………………....
103
Mathieu GUIDÈRE
Les Poètes et le Prophète au début de l’Islam ………………………………………………………….
121
Katia ZAKHARIA
Le Palimpseste des jours, lecture d’un poème d’Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī ……………………………….. 139
Li GUO
Ibn Dāniyāl’s Dīwān: In Light of MS Ayasofya 4880 …………………………………………………… 163
Arie SCHIPPERS
‘Semantic Rhyme’ (Parallellism) in Andalusian muwaššaḥāt ………………………………………….... 177
Mònica COLOMINAS APARICIO
‘Umar ibn Abī Rabī‘a and Ṯurayyā in Rawḍat al-qulūb wa-nuzhat al-muḥibb wa-al-maḥbūb …..……... 187
Xavier LUFFIN
Peaux noires, âmes blanches. Les poètes arabes d’origine africaine face à leur négritude ……….……. 199
Oriana CAPEZIO
‘Una tenda di parole’: osservazioni sulla terminologia della metrica araba …………………………..
217
Giovanni CANOVA
Cavalli e cavalieri nella poesia araba antica …………………………………………………………… 235
NOTE
Ḥusayn AL-ʽĀMILĪ
Gli insegnamenti dell’Arca di Noè ………………………………………………………………….....…. 253
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RECENSIONI
S. TALAY - H. BOBZIN (eds), Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte. Beiträge einer Tagung in
Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer, Wiesbaden 2010 (P. Larcher); G. MEJDELL, Mixed styles in
Spoken Arabic in Egypt: Somewhere between order and chaos, Leiden-Boston 2006 (R. Contini); J. P.
MONFERRER-SALA - N. AL JALLAD (eds), The Arabic Language across the Ages, Wiesbaden 2010 (F.
Grande); R.-E. BRÜNNOW – A. FISCHER, Chrestomacy of Classical Arabic Prose Literature, 8th revised
edition by L. EDZARD and A. BJØRSNOS, Wiesbaden 2008 (A. Ghersetti); Le résumé de la grammaire arabe
par Zamakšarī, texte, traduction et commentaires D. KOULOUGHLI, Lyon 2007 (A. Ghersetti); IBN ALǦAZZĀR, Libro del governo e del regime dei bambini, a cura di Francesca LUCCHETTA, Venezia 2010 (A.
Prinzivalli); Medioevo romanzo e orientale. Sulle orme di Shahrazàd: le «Mille e una notte» fra Oriente e
Occidente. VI Colloquio Interna-zionale, Ragusa, 12-14 ottobre 2006. Atti, a cura di Mirella CASSARINO,
Soveria Mannelli 2009 (A. Ghersetti); PIETRO ALFONSI, Disciplina clericalis. Sapienza orientale e scuola
delle novelle, a cura di Cristiano LEONE, Roma 2010 (A. Ghersetti); H.-J. DÖHLA, El libro de Calila e Dimna
(1251). Nueva edición y estudio de los dos manuscritos castellanos, Zaragoza 2009 (F. Bellino); Essays In
Arabic Literary Biography 1350-1850, J.E. LOWRY – D.J. STEWART (eds), Wiesbaden 2009 (A. Ghersetti);
S. REICHMUT, The World of Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī. Life, networks and writings, Cambridge 2009 (A. Ghersetti);
A.R. SURIANO, Il Teatro indipendente nella società politica egiziana: nascita, evoluzione e prospettive,
Firenze 2010 (L. Casini); F. SADIQI – M. ENNAJI (eds.), Women in the Middle East and North Africa : Agents
of Change, Milton Park - New York 2011 (E. Francesca).
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n.s. ANNO VII (2012)
ARABIC LITERATURE AND MUSIC
Guest Editor: Hilary Kilpatrick
Introduction, by Hilary Kilpatrick …………………………………………………………………..……
iii
Geert Jan VAN GELDER
Sing Me to Sleep: Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī, Hülegü, and the Power of Music …………………………….
1
Julien DUFOUR
«J’ai ouï chanter les oiseaux» : Musique, chant, danse et poésie ḥumaynī ……………………………...
11
Carl DAVILA
Yā qātilī bi-t-tajannī: Love, Contextualized Meaning and Praise of the Prophet in Ramal al-Māya …….
47
Dwight REYNOLDS
Lost Virgins Found: The Arabic Songbook Genre and an Early North African Exemplar ………………
69
Hilary KILPATRICK
The Example of the Angels: Makarios ibn al-Za‘īm’s Treatise on Byzantine Hymnography ……………. 107
Anne VAN OOSTRUM
Arabic Music in Western Ears: An Account of the Music of the Hejaz at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 127
Elizabeth WICKETT
The Aesthetics and Poetics of Upper Egyptian Funerary Lament in Performance …………………...…. 145
Frédéric LAGRANGE
«Mettre en musique»: La sélection et l’interprétation de la qaṣīda dans le répertoire égyptien savant enregistré sur disques 78 tours (1903-1925) …………………………………………………….… 169
Monica RUOCCO
Between Symphony and Novel: ‘Alī Badr’s Ḥāris al-tabġ (The tobacco keeper) ………………………… 207
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Lidia BETTINI
Su alcune pubblicazioni recenti in linguistica araba ……………………………………………….……. 227
Gregor SCHOELER
The Genres of Classical Arabic Poetry. Classifications of Poetic Themes and Poems by Pre-Modern
Critics and Redactors of Dīwāns ………………………………………………………………… 241
Oriana CAPEZIO
Il tarqīṣ nel dondolio delle parole ……………………………………………………….…………….…. 247
Giovanni CANOVA
Piazza Taḥrīr: graffiti e poesia …………………………………………………………………………... 261
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