The Case Of Rhyme Versus Reason

Author : Robert C. McKinney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004130101
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of Rhyme Versus Reason written by Robert C. McKinney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile 'Abb?sid poet Ibn al-R?m? (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.

Author : Robert McKinney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404394
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of Rhyme versus Reason written by Robert McKinney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Rūmī (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.

Author : Robert C. McKinney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433705908
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of Rhyme Versus Reason written by Robert C. McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile 'Abbasid poet Ibn al-Rumi (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.

Author : Ik Jagait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rhyme and a Reason written by Ik Jagait and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Punjabi Californian Love Story. After his separation from his childhood sweetheart Mahi, the headstrong but heartbroken Indo, gets involved with Jasleen, the free-spirited daughter of a wealthy, domineering family. But just as their relationship begins to blossom, an unexpected turn of events brings chaos into their lives and intertwines Indo's past with his present.

Author : Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004691014
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature written by Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful (Taḥsīn al-qabīḥ wa-taqbīḥ al-ḥasan) the prolific anthologist al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038) offers a thematically arranged selection of Arabic poems and prose anecdotes or sayings with contrary or paradoxical purport, such as praise of miserliness, boredom, sickness, and death, or condemnation of generosity, intelligence, youth, and music. The book is both entertaining and informative, giving insight in premodern Arab and Islamic culture. It contains a new edition of the Arabic text and a complete English translation (the first in any language) with extensive annotation, preceded by an introduction with the necessary background of the genre.

Author : Gabriel Said Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136700781
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Qur'an written by Gabriel Said Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and literatures of its day. Particular attention is paid to recent debates and controversies in the field, and to uncovering the Qur’ān’s relationship with Judaism and Christianity. After a foreword by Abdolkarim Soroush, chapters by renowned experts cover: method in Qur'ānic Studies analysis of material evidence, including inscriptions and ancient manuscripts, for what they show of the Qur'ān’s origins the language of the Qur'ān and proposed ways to emend our reading of the Qur'ān how our knowledge of the religious groups at the time of the Qur'ān’s emergence might contribute to a better understanding of the text the Qur'ān’s conversation with Biblical literature and traditions that challenge the standard understanding of the holy book. This debate of recent controversial proposals for new interpretations of the Qur'ān will shed new light on the Qur’anic passages that have been shrouded in mystery and debate. As such, it will be a valuable reference for scholars of Islam, the Qur’an, Christian-Muslim relations and the Middle East.

Author : Travis Zadeh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731312
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam written by Travis Zadeh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure, Travis Zadeh traces the conceptualization of frontiers within early 'Abbasid society and re-evaluates the modern treatment of marvels and monsters inhabiting medieval Islamic descriptions of the world. Examining the roles of translation, descriptive geography, and salvation history in the projection of early 'Abbasid imperial power, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic studies, the 'Abbasid dynasty and its politics, geography, religion, Arabic and Persian literature and European Orientalism.

Author : John Hollander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300043075
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhyme's Reason written by John Hollander and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhyme's Reason, a work that has already become a classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveyed the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and wittily self-descriptive example.

Author : Derrick Darby
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697790
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop and Philosophy written by Derrick Darby and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit — and often explicit — in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

Author : Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814771203
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Arabic Literature written by Geert Jan van Gelder and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Both entertaining and informative, Classical Arabic Literature ranges from the early Bedouin poems with their evocation of desert life to refined urban lyrical verse, from tender love poetry to sonorous eulogy and vicious lampoon, and from the heights of mystical rapture to the frivolity of comic verse. Prose selections include anecdotes, entertaining or edifying tales and parables, a fairy-tale, a bawdy story, samples of literary criticism, and much more. With this anthology, distinguished Arabist Geert Jan van Gelder brings together well-known texts as well as less familiar pieces new even to scholars. Classical Arabic Literature reveals the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts flourished alongside religious ones. This masterful anthology introduces this vibrant literary heritage—including pieces translated into English for the first time—to a wide spectrum of new readers. An English-only edition.