Maqamat Al-luzumiyah,al-

Couverture
Although the Arabic maq?mah, a branch of the picaresque genre, was much cultivated in the Middle Ages, little is known about it aside from the works of al-Hamadh?n? and al-?ar?r?, its first two cultivators. This translation of the Maq?m?t al-luz?m?yah by the twelfth-century Andalusi author al-Saraqust? makes available to Western scholars of narrative prose a hitherto little-known but important collection of Arabic maq?m?t. The "Preliminary Study" places this specific collection in the context of the overall maqama genre, it further places that genre in the contexts both of Arabic and of world literature, exploring the differences between the picaresque genre and the modern novel. It discusses the meaning of the work, shows the way in which it is original within its genre, and establishes its organic unity. Finally, it shows that late and post-classical Arabic literary works such as that of al-Saraqust?, which were composed during the so-called "period of decadence," are not decadent at all, contrary to the opinion prevalent among scholars in the field.

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Table des matières

Preliminary Study
1
Prologue
113
Maqamah 2
120
Magāmah 4
130
Magāmah 6
143
The Sea
149
Maqamah 8
160
Maqamah 9
168
The Horse
355
The Bear
363
The Phoenix
370
The Dove
382
The Ape
388
The Lion
396
On Poetry and Prose
403
The Berbers
418

Magāmah 10
177
Maqamah 11
184
The Persian
191
Maqamah 13
198
Maqamah 14
207
Maqamah 15
214
Rhymed in Triplets
221
The Studded
228
The Embroidered Girdled
236
Maqamah 19
242
Wine
249
Maqamah 21
257
Maqamah 22
263
Maqamah 23
269
Maqamah 24
273
The Judge
277
The Fools
285
Magāmah 27
291
Maqamah 28
296
Maqamah 29
302
The Poets
307
The Stars
331
Maqamah 32
340
Maqamah 33
347
Maqamah 42
425
Tarif
431
Maqamah 44
441
Maqamah 45
448
The Jinni
452
Maqamah 47
461
Maqamah 48
471
Maqamah 50
490
Colophon
502
Rhymed in Hamzah
507
Rhymed in Ba
516
Rhymed in Jim
522
Rhymed in Dal
528
Rhymed in Nun
534
Rhymed in the Order of the Arabic Alphabet
541
Also Rhymed in the Order of the Arabic Alphabet
547
Ibn Baškuwāl
572
AlMaqqarī
579
Ibn alAbbār
585
Bibliography
593
Indices
603
Hadīt references
623
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James T. Monroe, Ph.D. (1964) in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of Arabic, among them, Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (Sixteenth Century to the Present)(Brill, 1970).