Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature: Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th-18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer

431 Pages·2022·2.606 MB·English

by  Hakan Özkan, Nefeli Papoutsakis

DoingJusticetoaWrongedLiterature
Islamic History and
Civilization
studies and texts
EditorialBoard
HinrichBiesterfeldt
SebastianGünther
HonoraryEditor
WadadKadi
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Doing Justice
to a Wronged Literature
Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric
of the 12th–18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer
Editedby
HakanÖzkan
NefeliPapoutsakis
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Contents
Editors’Introduction ix
TabulaGratulatoria xix
PublicationsofThomasBauer xx
1 Usāmab.Munqiḏ(488–584/1095–1188)undderǧihād 1
EwaldWagner
2 TheRhetoricalFabricofaSeventh/Thirteenth-CenturySufiPoem
byʿAfīfal-Dīnal-Tilimsānī 10
AliAhmadHussein
3 “Youhavebecometheamīrofmyheart”:AnEditionoftheFaṣāḥat
al-mashūqfīmalāḥatal-maʿshūqortheMaqāmaIqṭāʿiyyaofal-Shābb
al-Ẓarīfal-Tilimsānī(d.688/1289) 36
BilalOrfaliandMauricePomerantz
4 DieKunstderzaǧal-DichtungvonIbnMuqātilamBeispiel
seinesqalbīyuḥibbtayyāh 50
HakanÖzkan
5 OffiziellemamlukenzeitlicheSchreibenundihreAussagekraft
amBeispieleinerFrohbotschaftausderFederIbnNubātas 71
AndreasHerdt
6 EinHetärengesprächausdemKairodes8./14.Jahrhunderts:al-Miʿmār:
Dīwān,GedichtNr.540 90
GregorSchoeler
7 MediainFlux:TheTaleoftheYellowFoliofromKalīlaandDimna 119
BeatriceGruendler
8 Al-Ibdāʿ,aTourdeForceofRhetoric:TheHistoryofanArabic
RhetoricalTerm 148
GeertJanvanGelder
viii contents
9 DasNilhochwasservon761/1360undIbnAbīḤaǧalasas-Saǧʿal-ǧalīl
fī-māǧarāminan-Nīl 169
WernerDiem
10 HiddenLiteraryHistory—IsmaʿiliTraditioninSyria 190
VerenaKlemm
11 „BetrübteWeisenimWaldrevier“—DieTaubeinAnthologien
derMamlukenzeit 211
AnkeOsigus
12 TheMagicofBooks:TheNarrativeFunctionofBooksinArabicPopular
Epic 247
RemkeKruk
13 KontrastundEntsprechung—IbnḤiǧǧaal-ḤamawīsUmgangmitder
rhetorischenStandardtheorieausdem8./14.Jahrhundertinseinem
KommentarzuseinemStilmittelgedichtausdem9./15.
Jahrhundert 269
SyrinxvonHees
14 ʿAbdar-Raḥīmal-Buraʿī:EineSpurensuche 287
InesWeinrich
15 OrpheuszwischenKāfundNūn:EinAusflugindiearabische
Unterwelt 316
ClaudiaOtt
16 PoetischwiderWillen:DerKoranimVersMāmayhs—Überpoetische
VerfahrenderDoppel-bzw.Mehrfachcodierungund
desCode-Switchinginiqtibās-Epigrammen 334
AlevMasarwa
17 IbrāhīmIbnal-Mullā’s(d.1032/1623)Ḥalbatal-mufāḍalawa-ḥilyat
al-munāḍala:ThecorrespondenceofanOttoman-EraAleppine
Littérateur 366
NefeliPapoutsakis
IndexofArabicTerms 387
IndexofNames 390
Editors’ Introduction
In 2013,Thomas Bauer was awarded the prestigious German Leibniz Award,
withwhichhefoundedandfundedalea(abbreviationforArabischeLitera-
turundRhetorikElfhundertbisAchtzehnhundert),aresearchgroupbasedat
the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the University of Münster,
with a view to promoting the study of Arabic literature and rhetoric dating
fromthesixth/twelfthtothetwelfth/eighteenthcenturies—anareaofArabic
studies notoriously neglected and maligned by earlier scholarship. The idea
of producing a Festschrift for Thomas’s sixtieth birthday in September 2021,
originated in this group. With it, we wished to express our gratitude to him
aswellascelebratehislongandoutstandingcareerasaresearcheranduni-
versity teacher that has established him as a leading academic in our field.
Thomas’slatestgreatsuccessgaveusadditionalreasontocelebrateandhon-
our him: In December 2019, in collaboration with Syrinx von Hees, Thomas
Bauerwonatwelve-yearresearchgrantfromthedfg(DeutscheForschungs-
gemeinschaft)toproduceanopen-access,onlinecriticaleditionof thecom-
pleteworksof IbnNubātaal-Miṣrī(686–768/1287–1366),themostacclaimed
ArabpoetoftheMamlukera.Thisprojectemploysfiveseniorresearchers,two
doctoral students and a Digital Humanities expert. It thus secured the posi-
tions of all members of the alea group for at least twelve years (four of us
obtainedtenure),whichshowsThomas’scareforthestaff of theDepartment
heruns.
Thomas Bauer is not only an Arabist but also an Islamicist and has pro-
ducedseveralground-breakingstudiesinanumberofdifferentareas,including
classicalArabiclexicography,earlyArabicpoetry,Abbasidliterature,Arabiclit-
erature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods, and the
culturalhistoryofIslammoregenerally.Itisfairtosaythathisworkhasbrought
the field forward in all these areas by offering a fresh and imaginative thor-
oughreadingofthesourcesthatchallengeswell-establishedviewsandopens
upnewperspectivesforfutureresearch.Thankstoaseriesof criticalstudies
producedoverthelasttwodecadesinparticular,hehassucceededindebunk-
ingthedeclinenarrativebycallingattentiontothequality,interestandvitality
oftheArabicliteraturedatingfromthesixth/twelfthtothetwelfth/eighteenth
centuriesandtoitscomplexanddiverseaesthetics.Apartfromfoundingthe
aleagrouptoboostresearchinthisundeservedlyneglectedarea,healsosup-
portedandinspiredothercolleagues,too,toworkonthisdomain.Thisiswhy
we decided to give the Festschrift the thematic focus “Arabic literature and
rhetoricfromthesixth/twelfthtothetwelfth/eighteenthcenturies,”although
x editors’ introduction
this by no means covers the wide range of topics, on which Thomas Bauer
has worked.Thirty-odd years ago, when ʿUmar Mūsā Bāshā, an Arab scholar
muchadmiredbyThomasandapioneerinthestudyof thisarea,described
Ottoman-eraArabicliteratureasal-adabal-maẓlūm(thewrongedliterature),1
thischaracterisationheldtruefortheliteratureof theAyyubidandMamluk
periodsaswell.MeanwhileThomasBauer’sworkhasdonemuchtorehabilit-
atethisliteratureanddojusticetoit.
The present volume is a collection of case studies on individual literary
authors, texts, themes and rhetorical figures dating from the said period. A
numberofscholarswhoeitherhaveworkedcloselywiththealeagroupsince
itsfoundationorarelong-timefriendsofThomashavejoinedusinproducing
it. Due to pandemic-related restrictions and inconveniences, however, some
colleagueswhohadinitiallyagreedtocontributetotheFestschrifthaveregret-
tablybeenobligedtowithdraw.EmilT.Homerin,adearfriendof thealeas,
who had very much wanted to participate, sadly passed away in December
2020. Others were willing to contribute but felt that the volume’s thematic
focus lay beyond their area of expertise and thus could not participate. We
wouldliketothankthemallfortheirreadinesstojoinusinhonouringThomas
andthankespeciallyallcontributorsfortheirkindcooperation.Wealsocordi-
allythankHinrichBiesterfeldandSebastianGüntherforacceptingthevolume
for publication in the Islamic History and Civilization series of Brill and are
grateful to Teddi Dols for her assistance throughout the process of produc-
tion.
Thecontributionsareprecededbyashortacademiccurriculumvitaeand
a list of publications of Thomas Bauer and have been arranged very roughly
chronologically, but the adab principle of delectable variation has also been
observed—allthemoresoasseveralarticlestakeadiachronicperspectiveand
coverseveralcenturies.
The work of Usāma Ibn Munqidh (488–584/1095–1188), a sixth-/twelfth-
centuryArabintellectualandpoliticianwhoisprimarilyknownforhismem-
oirs, the Kitāb al-Iʿtibār (Book of instruction by example), has long attrac-
ted attention for the insights it offers into contemporary Muslim attitudes
towardstheCrusaders.InthisconnectionEwaldWagnerrevisitsatopicthat
hasforsometimebeendebatedbetweenPaulCobbandRobertIrwin,namely,
Usāma’sattitudetowards jihad.AdducingnewevidencefromUsāma’spoetry,
a source untapped by the two scholars, he shows that Usāma was not unfa-
vourablydisposedtowards jihad,asIrwinhadclaimed,thussupportingCobb’s
1 ʿUmarMūsāBāshā,Taʾrīkhal-adabal-ʿarabī:al-ʿAṣral-ʿUthmānī,Damascus1989,7.