Nūbat Ramal al-Māya in Cultural Context
Nūbat Ramal al-Māya in Cultural Context

Author: Carl Davila

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-09

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9004294538

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In this unique edition, Carl Davila takes an original approach to the texts of the modern Moroccan Andalusian music tradition. This volume offers a literary-critical analysis and English translation of the texts of this nūba, studies their linguistic and thematic features, and compares them with key manuscripts and published anthologies. Four introductory chapters and four appendices discuss the role of orality in the tradition and the manuscripts that lie behind the print anthologies. Two supplements cross-reference key poetic images in English and Arabic, and provide information on known authors of the texts. This groundbreaking contribution will interest scholars and students of pre-modern Arabic poetry, muwashshaḥāt, Andalusian music traditions, Arabic Studies, orality, and sociolinguistics.

Antifascisms
Antifascisms

Author: David Ward

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780838636763

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This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.

Dante and Islam
Dante and Islam

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0823263886

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Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Trichier
Trichier

Author: Alessandra Ceretto

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published:

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 136509796X

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Islam and the Divine Comedy
Islam and the Divine Comedy

Author: Miguel Asin Palacios

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 113453650X

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When first published in 1926 this book aroused much controversy. The theory expounded in the book was that Islamic sources in general, and the writings of Ibn al-`Arabi in particular, formed the basis of Dante’s poem Divine Comedy, the poem which symbolised the whole culture of medieval Christianity. The book shows how fundamental Muslim legends of the nocturnal journey and of the ascension of the Prophet Muhammed appear in Dante’s writings.