{"product_id":"the-mantle-odes-arabic-praise-poems-to-the-prophet-muhammad-paperback-softback-9780253222060","title":"The Mantle Odes; Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253222060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mantle Odes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253222060\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.485 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\u003cp\u003e\"Also author of The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy (2002) and The Mute Immortals Speak (1993), Stetkevych (Indiana Univ.) provides an original translation and careful analysis of three landmark poems in Arabic Islamic literature: Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's \"Su'ad Has Departed\" (presented to the prophet in his life), Al-Busiri's \"Mantle Ode\" (13th century), and Ahmad Shawqi's \"The Way of the Mantle\" (early 20th century). The author argues that these are essentially praise poems with similar structural elements. They are addressed to the prophet in exchange for a gift, and the nature of this gift varies according to the poem's cultural and historical circumstances. Each of the book's three chapters presents a comprehensive and compelling line-by-line analysis of its subject poem. The book also includes an appendix of Arabic texts. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers\/faculty. — Choice\"—S. Gomaa, Salve Regina University, Jan. 2011\u003cbr\u003e \"[T]he reader can learn much from Stetkevych's study . . . .\"—\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Stetkevych provides an original translation and careful analysis of three landmark poems in Arabic Islamic literature . . . Recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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 Conflict\u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Translation and Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ka'b ibn Zuhayr and the Mantle of the Prophet\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e The Pre-Islamic Prototype\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Alqamah's A Heart Turbulent with Passion: The Poem as Ransom Payment\u003cbr\u003e 2. Al-Nabighah's O Abode of Mayyah: Transgression and Redemption\u003cbr\u003e 3. Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulmá's The Tribe Set Out: The Tacit Panegyric Pact\u003cbr\u003e The Pre-Islamic as Proto-Islamic\u003cbr\u003e Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's Su'ad Has Departed\u003cbr\u003e The Conversion Narrative\u003cbr\u003e The Conversion Ode\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Lyric-Elegiac Prelude (Nasib)\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Desert Journey (Rahil)\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Praise (Madih)\u003cbr\u003e Mythogenesis: The Donation of the Mantle\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Hassan ibn Thabit's At Taybah Lies a Trace\u003cbr\u003e 2. Al-Busiri and the Dream of the Mantle\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Poetic Genre\u003cbr\u003e Poetic Style: Classical and Post-Classical Badi'\u003cbr\u003e The Poet and His Times\u003cbr\u003e The Miracle and the Poem\u003cbr\u003e 'Umar ibn al-Farid's Was That Laylá's Fire\u003cbr\u003e The Mantle Ode\u003cbr\u003e The Structure of al-Busiri's Burdah\u003cbr\u003e The Beginning of the Supplicatory Pattern: Parts 1-3\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Prophetic Nasib\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Warning against the Desires of the Self\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Praise of the Noble Messenger\u003cbr\u003e The Sirah-Derived Passages: Parts 4-8\u003cbr\u003e Poeticization and Polemicization\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: The Birth of the Prophet\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: The Miracles of the Prophet\u003cbr\u003e Part 6: The Noble Qur'an\u003cbr\u003e Part 7: The Night Journey and Ascension\u003cbr\u003e Part 8: The Messenger's Jihad and Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e Completion of the Supplicatory Pattern: Parts 9-10\u003cbr\u003e Part 9: Supplication and Plea for Intercession\u003cbr\u003e Part 10: Fervent Prayer and Petition\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ahmad Shawqi and the Reweaving of the Mantle\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Ahmad Shawqi and the Nahdah\u003cbr\u003e Poetic Precedents\u003cbr\u003e Authorizing the Text: The Khedive, the Shaykh, and the Adib\u003cbr\u003e The Colonial Double Bind\u003cbr\u003e Shawqi's Nahj al-Burdah: The Thematic Structure\u003cbr\u003e Nahj al-Burdah Movement I: In the Path of al-Busiri—Parts 1-6\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Nasib: Complaint of Unrequited Love\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Chiding the Unruly Soul—Warning against Worldly Temptations\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Repentance, Submission, and Supplication\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Prophetic Praise\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: Sirah Themes: The Birth of the Prophet; The Night Journey and Ascension; The Miracle of the Cave\u003cbr\u003e Part 6: Metapoetic Recapitulation of Prophetic Praise\u003cbr\u003e Nahj al-Burdah Movement II: The Ihya' Project: Parts 7-12\u003cbr\u003e Part 7: Polemic against Christianity\u003cbr\u003e Part 8: Defense\/Praise of Jihad and the Prophet's Military Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e Part 9: The Shari'ah\u003cbr\u003e Part 10: The Glory of Baghdad\u003cbr\u003e Part 11: The Orthodox Caliphs\u003cbr\u003e Part 12: Benediction and Supplication\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Umm Kulthum, al-Qaradawi, and Nahj al-Burdah\u003cbr\u003e Appendix of Arabic Texts\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716603670808,"sku":"9780253222060","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mantle-odes-arabic-praise-poems-to-the-prophet-muhammad-paperback-softback-9780253222060","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}