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Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and Nahj al-balāghah: Rhetoric, Dispossession, and the Lyric Sensibility.
- Source :
- Journal of Arabic Literature; Nov2019, Vol. 50 Issue 3/4, p211-250, 40p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This study explores the relationship between the extraordinary poetic achievement of Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1016) in his highly lyrical and influential Dīwān , on the one hand, and the literary-religious accomplishment of his unrivalled compilation of the sermons, epistles, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Nahj al-balāghah , on the other. It examines the interplay among the contemporary Mutanabbī-dominated literary scene, the Imāmī Shīʿite dominated Baghdādī politico-religious scene, and, in Islamic scholarship generally, the increasingly balāghah - (rhetoric)-focused theological discourse on iʿjāz al-Qurʾān (the miraculous inimitability of the Qurʾān). Finally, the paper attempts to connect al-Raḍī's sense of alienation and dispossession from his hereditary right to rule—one that he has found so strikingly expressed in the sermons of his forefather ʿAlī—and the extraordinary lyrical-elegiac strain in his own poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EVICTION
RHETORIC
POETRY (Literary form)
ACHIEVEMENT
DISCOURSE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00852376
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Arabic Literature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139922135
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341392