عنوان

Tribal poetics in early Arabic culture: The case of Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn

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TL48792

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Tribal poetics in early Arabic culture: The case of Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nathaniel Ashton Miller

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Qutbuddin, Tahera

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

502

Text of Note

Committee members: Donner, Fred; Sells, Michael

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-87446-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn, the anthology of the Hudhayl tribe's poetry, which dates to around 550-700 CE, is the only complete collection of tribal Arabic poetry from the medieval period. Hudhayl lived near Mecca, and their increased poetic production in the mid-sixth century coincided with the rise of Quraysh, the Prophet Muhammad's tribe, in Mecca. Although the poetic culture of pre-Islamic Arabia is usually taken to be uniform across the Arabian Peninsula, this study argues that Hudhayl constructed a distinctive social identity in their 4,600-line corpus of poetry. Drawing on non-Arabic sources, including inscriptional sources, this dissertation narrates the emergence of a warrior elite in Najd (central and northeastern Arabia) in the early sixth century, whose poetic culture emphasized equestrianism, hierarchy and connections with sedentary societies such as Sasanian Iran and Byzantium. This group of poets became aesthetically normative and canonical for medieval Arabic philologists.

Middle Eastern literature; Islamic Studies; Middle Ages; Poetry; Arabic language; Cultural identity; Language culture relationship; Intertextuality; Self concept; Social identity; Poetics; Near Eastern studies; Ideology

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic;Hijazi;Hudhayl;Tribalism;Tribes

Kolander, Kenny

Qutbuddin, Tahera

Subdivision

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1799671836; 10129555

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276903

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