Kamal abu deeb biography of william

Arabic poetics—the theories of criticism of poetry and eloquence in classical (mediaeval) Arabic scholarship—has a great deal to offer the contemporary reader and critic.

This volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Within this trend, scholars such as Kamal Abu-Deeb have explored the genealogical links between the European sonnet and earlier Arabic forms.

Abu-Deeb also discusses what he calls his 'fantasy' of an Arab origin for Shakespeare's name.

Biography & Autobiography / General.

On al-Jurjani, the standard reference is Kamal Abu Deeb's study, which attempted to bring his work into conversation with Western.

This post is an iterative and discursive bibliography, intended to provide non-specialists with an introduction and orientation to over a millenium of sustained engagement with poetry by an intellectual culture that tended towards theory and had a predeliction for language-centered enquiry.

The Arabic poetic tradition is not well-known, and despite its echoes in Persian (and the echoes of Persian in Europe—think Hegel), and its better known (and better transmitted into Europe) counterpart tradition of logic and Hellenic philosophy (think Averroes), it is often not even known to exist.

It is sometimes a known unknown, and sometimes an unknown unknown...

This post comes out of fruitful discussions at the Workshop in Poetics in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and will be part of my cont