2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0631-3310-01 | Classical Arabic Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will deal with poetic texts from different classical periods: Jahiliyya, Rashidiya, Umayyad, Abbasid, Andalusian. Throughout the course we inquire into the thematical, artistic and structural evolution of classical poetry. The course will focus on various basic concepts used by classical and modern Arab scholars for analyzing and criticizing classical Arabic poetry, among them prosody and rhetoric.