{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-arabic-poetry-from-regional-identities-to-islamic-canonization-hardback-9781512825305","title":"The Emergence of Arabic Poetry; From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization (Hardback) 9781512825305","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Emergence of Arabic Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNathaniel A. Miller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512825305\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 6 b\/w illus, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.698 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Outstanding and persuasive, this book is a major work that will alter the field. Nathaniel A. Miller has a real command of a range of difficult primary texts, and his assessment of their wider significance opens many new vistas of scholarship.\" (Philip Wood, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University) \"The task of making sense of the extant corpus of early Arabic poetry in the context of the late antique world—demanding as it does a very high degree of linguistic and other expertise—has so far remained outstanding. This pioneering, thoroughly impressive book finally accomplishes the desideratum, providing an unrivaled picture of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.\" (Nicolai Sinai, University of Oxford)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To interpret the Quran's Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet Muhammad's cousin called \"the archive of the Arabs.\" While this principle seems straightforward, pre-Islamic Arabs did not, in fact, think of themselves as either pre-Islamic or Arab. The term Arab barely appears at all in pre-Islamic poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Arabic Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e reexamines this early poetry to reconstruct what pre-Islamic culture actually entailed. Nathaniel A. Miller draws on a wide range of texts, including hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English—in addition to new inscriptional, archaeological, and non-Arabic sources—to explore the diverse world of pre- and early-Islamic Arabia in which Islam developed. Miller traces the emergence of two regional identities, and their distinctive poetic traditions, in the Arabian Peninsula of late antiquity: Najdi in the center and northeast and Hijazi in the southwest. The book shows how later efforts of Muslim scholars to use early poetry as an aesthetic, linguistic ideal to interpret the Quran resulted in an image of a unitary, exceptional, and isolated Arab identity and culture. These scholars drew on the Najdi tradition, canonizing its forms as classical Arabic poetry par excellence, and solidifying many tropes of Arabness that are still ubiquitous today: of nomadism, performative generosity, and martial equestrianism. However, Miller argues, it was the neglected Hijazi tradition that was actually more central to the emergence of early Islam.\u003cbr\u003e Early Arabic poetry has been largely overlooked in current scholarship in adjacent fields, largely due to twentieth-century controversies over whether this corpus is legitimate or was forged. In combining a reconstruction of pre-Islamic poetry's social function with a consideration of the circumstances of its later canonization, \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Arabic Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus, as well as a new literary history of the origins of Arabic poetry from 500 to 750 CE.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration, Translations, Dates, and Sources\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. FROM \"PRE-ISLAMIC\" TO LATE ANTIQUE TRIBALISMS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Beyond the Jāhiliyyah: How Najdi Poetics Became Classical Arabic Poetry \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Background to the Najdi-Hijazi Dichotomy: Arabians and Late Antique Empires Before 500CE \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Development of Najdi and Hijazi Identities in Poetic Sources (500–622) \u003cbr\u003e PART II. HIJAZI AND NAJDI REGIONAL IDENTITIES (500–632)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Poetics of the Najdi Warrior Elite \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Hijazi Counterpoetics: The Case of Hudhayl \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Imagined Geographies \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Hijazi Imagined Geographies \u003cbr\u003e PART III. ISLAM AND THE ASCENT OF NEO-NAJDI POETICS (632–750)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Poets as Tribal Spokesmen in Early Islam (Before 692) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Najdi Poetic Construction of Universal Arabo-Islam (After 692) \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Appendix of Arabic Texts \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670799380760,"sku":"9781512825305","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-emergence-of-arabic-poetry-from-regional-identities-to-islamic-canonization-hardback-9781512825305","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}