Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics

Dr Hany Rashwan is a scholar of Arabic and Comparative Poetics. He is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at UAE University as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Birmingham.Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.Dr Nasrin Askari is a Research Fellow and Translator on the Persian segment of the European Research Council-funded project Global Literary Theory (GlobalLIT).

Arabic, Persian, and Turkish poetics are too often studied in isolation from one another, or in the stifling shadow of European poetics and European literary theory. This volume does the very opposite. It brings a series of important studies-by a wide-ranging, international cadre of scholars-of distinct and distinctive works from the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish traditions into conversation with each other. And, by excavating and foregrounding literary theoretical terms native and inherent to Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, it posits a literary theory that is both post-Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric. This will be required reading for anyone wishing to work within any of or across Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature and poetic.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Challenges of Comparison1: Hany Rashwan: The History of Literary Theory in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Cultures2: Lachen El Yazghi Ezzaher: The Arabic Commentary Tradition on Aristotle's Rhetoric: A New Space for Greek Logical and Rhetorical Terminology3: Linda G. Jones: 'The Central Jewel': The Poetics of the Khuand#7789ba, Khiand#7789and#257ba and Baland#257gha according to Ibn 'Abd Rabbih of Cordoba (d. 328/940)4: Leila Seyed-Ghasem: The Poetics of Preposing and Postposing (taqdim and ta'khir) in The History of Bayhaqi5: Natalia Chalisova: The Beauty of Misleading: Ambiguity in Persian Poetics and Ghazal Poetry6: A.A. Seyed-Gohrab: The Science of Poetics and Persian Literary Riddles: The Case of Majd al-Din Hamgar7: Nicola Carpentieri: A Maghribi Poetics of Ageing? Ibn Rashiq, al-Qartand#257janni and Ibn Hamdis on I^"al-Shayb wa-l-Shaband#257b"8: Marc Toutant: Beyond Eurocentric Turkology: Turkic Poetry, Persian Prosody, and the Making of a Non-language-specific-system9: A. Handan Konar: Exploring the Arabic and Persian Concept of Imitation (Ietebbu) in 16th Century Ottoman Biographies of Poets10: Berat Açil: The Proof of God's Eloquence in the Poetics of Seyh Gâlib (d. 1799)11: Todd Lawson: Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Ahmad Ahsand#257i, Figuration and the World of Images12: Haifa Alfaisal: From Baland#257gha to Intiqand#257d: Politicising the Science of Literature in Modern Arabic Literary Thought13: Chiara Fontana: Arabic Poetics and Prosody in Practice: Najib Surur's Experimentalism in 'Kalimand#257t fi-l-hubb' [Love Words]Index